Abstract

Mobiles Apps are the most preferred way of delivering the attacks today. Understanding the finer details of Mobile App attacks is soon becoming an essential skill for penetration testers as well as for the app developers & testers.

So, if you are an Android User, a developer, a security analyst, a mobile pen-tester or just a mobile security enthusiast then the ‘Mobile App Attack’ is of definite interest to you, as the Mobile App Attack familiarizes attendees with in-depth technical explanation of some of the most notorious mobile (Android ) based vulnerabilities, ways to verify and exploit them. Along with the various Android, application analysis techniques, inbuilt security schemes and teaches how to bypass those security models on both the platforms.

With live demos using intentionally crafted real-world vulnerable Android and iOS apps by the author, we shall look into the some of the common ways as to how the malicious apps bypass the security mechanisms or misuse the given permissions.

Apart from that we shall have a brief understanding of what is so special with the latest Android 8 security and the relating flaws.