Learning Pentesting for Android Devices

A practical guide to learning penetration testing for Android devices and applications



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Price$17.99 - $38.33
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AuthorAditya Gupta
PublisherPackt Publishing
Published2014
Pages154
LanguageEnglish
FormatPaper book / ebook (PDF)
ISBN-101783288981
ISBN-139781783288984
EBook Hardcover Paperback

Android is the most popular mobile smartphone operating system at present, with over a million applications. Every day hundreds of applications are published to the PlayStore, which users from all over the world download and use. Often, these applications have serious security weaknesses in them, which could lead an attacker to exploit the application and get access to sensitive information. This is where penetration testing comes into play to check for various vulnerabilities.

Learning Pentesting for Android is a practical and hands-on guide to take you from the very basic level of Android Security gradually to pentesting and auditing Android. It is a step-by-step guide, covering a variety of techniques and methodologies that you can learn and use in order to perform real life penetration testing on Android devices and applications.


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