Articles
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.
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...
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.
Vulnerabilities tested by Google Play Store
Google will start identifying security weaknesses in Apps pushed to the Play Store...
Python Concurrency and Parallelism: building a custom ProcessPoolExecutor
At Ostorlab we scan hundreds of Mobile Applications each day, each scan is very resource intensive but at the same time, since the beginning, we had to optimize the code for speed and maximize use of cloud resources.
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...
Android SSL pinning, frameworks and implementations
When developing a mobile application, securing the communication between the user's device and the backend is an important step to guarantee the safety of the user's data.
Reversing JNI, or how Facebook is crashing their own application
Apparently Facebook is crashing their apps intentionally in order to test users reaction and evaluate their adherence to Facebook service. This post is however not about the user's behavioral analysis, but about the technical aspects of how it is done - or just an excuse to dive into JNI reversing.
What every pentesters should learn in 2016
The last years have come with meaningful changes in the way IT professionals operate and the way we approach security...
Ostorlab Beta is out
We are pleased to release the Beta version of our online mobile application security scanner.
