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Mobile Application Penetration Testing
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Mobile Application Penetration Testing

by Vijay Kumar Velu
March 2016
Intermediate to advanced
312 pages
7h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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Preface

The adoption of mobile technology has changed the world, smartphones especially have become an integral part of everyone's lives and an extension of the corporate workplace.

With over a billion smartphone users worldwide, mobile applications play a crucial role in almost everything a device can do. Most of the time, the security of these applications is always an afterthought when data is the only asset that one would like to protect.

In short, the purpose of this book is to educate you about and demonstrate application security weaknesses on the client (device) side and configuration faults in Android and iOS that can lead to potential information leakage.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, The Mobile Application Security Landscape, takes ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781785883378