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Know Your App's Data Habits: A Deep Dive into Our Comprehensive Privacy Analysis
Ostorlab's Privacy Scan automatically detects mismatches between what your app's privacy policy says and what it actually does. This comprehensive analysis of policy text, permissions, code, and UI elements helps mobile developers avoid compliance violations and build user trust through accurate privacy practices.
Tue 27 May 2025
Secure Mobile Biometric Authentication: Best Practices and Implementation Guidelines for Kotlin, Swift, and Flutter
In this Article, we define a secure implementation of mobile biometric authentication and provide detailed implementations in the 3 main modern mobile languages, namely Kotlin for Android, Swift for iOS, and Dart for Flutter multiplatform applications.
Tue 20 June 2023
Build you CI/CD pipeline for Mobile Applications with Jenkins, Github Actions and Azure Devops
This article will cover the main challenges when implementing a CI/CD pipeline for mobile applications. We will also provide examples of how you can implement a CI/CD pipeline for Android and iOS applications in the most used Mobile CI/CD tools.
Thu 27 October 2022
UI call coverage release for dynamic security testing
Ostorlab released the UI call coverage in the analysis environment to show the UI flow exercised during the dynamic security testing.
Wed 01 September 2021
Ostorlab Nuggets in June issue 5
Health Tech, Compromises and attacks, Instrumentation, Black Hat conferences, eBPF and more….
Universal bypass of SSL Pinning ... from theory to a full working PoC with LLDB
This article is about bypassing SSL pinning without needing to. Sounds confusing? We will go over the theory, build a full PoC using LLDB in Python and finally extend it to other cool tasks.
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5 things every mobile security professional should know about WebViews
This article is about WebViews and the security notions we need to have in mind when using these component in both Android and iOS.
Tue 18 May 2021
Finding and Validating Hardcoded Keys and Secrets
Hardcoded secrets are easy to find and might open a gate to sensitive data or privileged access. This makes them a great target for Bug Bounty hunters and Attackers.
Fri 30 October 2020
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 Machine.
Tue 08 October 2019
Critical attack surface of mobile applications
the Attack Surface of mobile applications.
Wed 17 January 2018
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
Best SSL/TLS resources (Attacks, Tools, Talks)
This article will reference the best current resources on SSL/TLS.
Tue 25 August 2015