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The last few months, Ostorlab team has been hard at work adding exciting new features. Some of these have already hit production, or will do so in the upcoming weeks and months.

Security

Critical attack surface of mobile applications

the Attack Surface of mobile applications.

Wed 17 January 2018

Security

Finding security bugs in Android applications the hard way

Ostorlab is a community effort to build a mobile application vulnerability scanner to help develo...

Fri 16 June 2017

Security

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 cl...

Sun 23 April 2017

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.

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

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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

Vulnerabilities tested by Google Play Store

Google will start identifying security weaknesses in Apps pushed to the Play Store...

Mon 05 September 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...

Fri 27 May 2016

Android SSL certificate pinning to prevent Man-in-the-middle attack

Implementing SSL certificate pinning in mobile apps to secure the communication between the user's device and the backend

Wed 11 May 2016

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.

Thu 07 January 2016

Best SSL/TLS resources (Attacks, Tools, Talks)

This article will reference the best current resources on SSL/TLS.

Tue 25 August 2015


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