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Vulnerability research, CVE deep dives, and practical guides for mobile and web application security.
Ostorlab Insecure Application
This article describes the usage of Ostorlab Insecure Application.
Oct 14, 2019
Application Security Testing on non-Jailbroken iOS from Linux
How to perform security checks of an iOS application file on a non-jailbroken iPhone from a Linux...
Oct 08, 2019
Security, what opportunities and challenges for 2019?
Use the start of the year to contemplate how the previous year went, and prepare for the upcoming...
Jan 07, 2019
DOM XSS Fuzzing strategies - Part 1
XSS are still by far the most common type of vulnerabilities, this article presents strategies to...
Dec 22, 2018
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Hardcoded AWS keys in Mobile Applications
This article is about how to manage AWS access keys when using AWS services in your mobile application.
Dec 20, 2018
Reinforcement Learning & Automated Testing - part 1
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.
Jan 22, 2018
Critical attack surface of mobile applications
the Attack Surface of mobile applications.
Jan 17, 2018
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.
Jun 16, 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.
Apr 23, 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.
Nov 24, 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...
Nov 03, 2016
Vulnerabilities tested by Google Play Store
Google will start identifying security weaknesses in Apps pushed to the Play Store...
Sep 05, 2016
New in Android M and N: Runtime Permissions
In Android, the permission system was one of the major security concerns of the platform for many reasons...
May 27, 2016
What Is SSL Pinning? Android Guide with OkHttp
Implement SSL pinning on Android with Network Security Config, OkHttp and Retrofit, then test it and rotate pins safely. Includes legacy library examples.
May 11, 2016