Application security

Attacks on android webviews

In this series of articles so far, we have discussed various techniques to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in Android applications. In the previous arti

Exploiting debuggable android applications

In the previous article, we have seen how to debug Java applications using a little tool called JDB. In this article, we will apply the same logic to exploit

Building a Secure API in a Cloud Environment

Introduction In the last couple of years there has been a boom in cloud computing, but mainly just the term is new, as we've been using cloud services for ye

Penetration testing apps for android devices

According to recent research, the amount of mobile phone users is larger than PC users. At the same time, the number of people who own Android phones is incr

Android Application Security Testing Guide: Part 2

In our last part of this series (Android Application Security Testing Guide: Part 1), we discussed static analysis of Android APK files on the security backg

Android Tamer – A Walk Through

Are you a Backtrack/Kali freak? Ever thought of having a similar distribution in your arsenal dedicated for Android Security? "Android Tamer" is the solution

iOS Application Security Part 34 - Tracing Method calls using Logify

In the previous articles, we have seen how applications like Snoop-it can trace method calls specific to the application at runtime. This is very important i

Securing IIS Server Checklists

Abstract This paper is designed to demonstrate the common IIS web server security specifications in the form of a checklist that aids web masters or penetrat

iOS Application Security Part 33 - Writing tweaks using Theos (Cydia Substrate)

In some of the previous articles in this series, we have looked at how we can modify the behaviour of an application by patching it using IDA Pro, Hopper etc

ASP.NET Website Optimization

Writing optimized website code is considered to be one the most complicated tasks. Hence, this paper explores amazing server side configuration techniques an