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Ostorlab Team

I will be sharing through a series of blog posts our past experimentations with the use of reinforcement learning for automated testing, to both chase bugs and find vulnerabilities.

Security

Critical attack surface of mobile applications

the Attack Surface of mobile applications.

Wed 17 January 2018

Product

January 2018

We are pleased to announce a set of new improvements

Mon 01 January 2018

Product

December 2017

We are pleased to announce a set of new improvements

Fri 01 December 2017

We are pleased to announce a set of new improvements

We are pleased to announce a set of new improvements

Latest posts

August 2017

We are pleased to announce a set of new improvements

Tue 01 August 2017

July 2017

We are pleased to announce a set of new improvements

Sat 01 July 2017

Finding security bugs in Android applications the hard way

Ostorlab is a community effort to build a mobile application vulnerability scanner to help developers build secure mobile applications. One of the new key components of the scanner detection capabilities is a new shiny static taint engine for Android Dalvik Bytecode that was heavily optimized for performance and low false positives.

Fri 16 June 2017

June 2017

We are pleased to announce a set of new improvements

Thu 01 June 2017

New Taint Engine ... more vulnerabilities found

We have been for the last few months hard at work developing a new scan engine to identify new classes of vulnerabilities. The new scan engine is capable of identifying SQL injections, intent hijacking, insecure random seed, insecure cryptography etc.

Sun 23 April 2017

Testing Cordova Applications

Hybrid frameworks like Cordova offers the advantage of building one app for multiple platform (support for Android, iOS, Windows Phone, FireOS, FirefoxOS ...) . The framework is easy and fast to develop with and offers generally a single API for all platforms.

Thu 24 November 2016

Android, SQL and ContentProviders or Why SQL injections aren't dead yet ?

Before we get into SQL injections and what might go wrong, we'll start by covering some technical information on Content Providers...

Thu 03 November 2016

Android external libs!

For an Android developer, it has become standard practice to use external libraries to easily extend the functionalities of the mobile application . Thanks to Gradle easy dependency integration, features like HTTP frameworks, database ORM, fancy scrolling, efficient image loading, caching, social network integration and many others can be added easily.

Tue 01 November 2016