Chapter 4. Overview of Attacking Android Apps
This chapter gives an overview of attack surface of Android. We will discuss the possible attacks on Android apps, devices, and other components in application architecture. Essentially, we will build a simple threat model for a traditional application that communicates with databases over the network. It is essential to understand the possible threats that an application may come across, in order to understand what to test during a penetration test. This chapter is a high level overview and contains lesser technical details.
This chapter covers the following topics:
- Introduction to Android apps
- Threat modeling for mobile apps
- Overview of OWASP mobile top 10 vulnerabilities
- Introduction to automated tools ...
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