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DORA Compliance Checklist for Banking & Fintech: Audit-Ready Operational Resilience Validation
A DORA compliance checklist helps banking and fintech organizations evaluate operational resilience across core areas like ICT risk, incident response, resilience testing, third-party governance, and oversight, while tracking implementation progress and supporting audit readiness.
Wed 29 April 2026
Mobile AppSec Testing Best Practices for High-Tech Teams Shipping at Scale
A technical guide to mobile application security testing best practices for high-tech teams shipp...
Thu 16 April 2026
Mobile Banking Security Testing: Protecting Financial Apps, Data, and Transactions
Protecting mobile banking apps requires more than securing the client alone. This guide explores ...
Thu 16 April 2026
DORA Compliance for Mobile Teams: Understanding scope and what you need to do
A mobile-first guide to DORA regulation and DORA compliance for BFSI teams. Learn how to define y...
Tue 03 March 2026
Top 10 Mobile Pentesting Tools in 2026
We work with mobile apps every day, and over time we’ve found a list of open-source tools that consistently make our testing more powerful, faster and fun. In this article, we’ve highlighted 10 mobile app pentesting tools we love using everyday.
Javascript Interface Exposure
Ostorlab's Pentest Engine identified a JavaScript bridge exposure in an Android WebView, allowing unauthenticated native method invocation via deep links. This case study details how the engine bypassed insecure Intent handling to manipulate the native UI, validating a potent social engineering vector while confirming the effectiveness of the underlying sandbox.
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Top Mobile App Security Testing Platforms 2026
Navigate the market for the Top Mobile App Security Testing Platforms 2026 by focusing on the criteria that actually matter for your delivery workflow. Our guide details exactly what to look for, including seamless CI/CD integration, powerful detection, and high-fidelity signal-to-noise ratios. Learn how to evaluate vendors on scalability, multiplatform support, and collaboration features to select a partner that secures your mobile releases without slowing you down.
Mon 05 January 2026
Understanding Android's FLAG_SECURE for Screen Security
What Android’s FLAG_SECURE does, how it prevents screenshots and screen recordings of sensitive app content, how to implement it correctly, where it makes sense to use it, and the key limitations and UX trade-offs developers need to understand, including its behavior with casting and external displays.
Mon 29 December 2025
Banking Report 2025: Security at the Core of Mobile Finance
Large-scale security analysis of 500+ top mobile banking apps reveals widespread vulnerabilities, decade-old codebases, and concerning backend centralization patterns.
Mon 15 September 2025
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
Ostorlab Security Scanner GitHub Integration
The Ostorlab Security Scanner GitHub Integration enhances mobile app development workflows by embedding automated security directly into the CI/CD pipeline. It offers a GitHub Action for scanning mobile application on every code push. It adds inline vulnerability insights directly to pull requests, highlighting the exact code changes that introduced issues and suggesting one-click fixes developers can apply without leaving GitHub.
Wed 21 May 2025
Discovering & Monitoring Mobile Applications Attack Surface with Ostorlab
The article introduces Ostorlab Attack Surface Discovery as a solution for discovering and continuously monitoring mobile applications, alleviating the manual burden on security teams. It outlines steps for adding applications to an inventory, configuring monitoring rules, and emphasizes the platform's ability to streamline mobile application security management.
Tue 26 March 2024
Security Landscape of Mobile Banking Applications in North America
This article examines the security of mobile banking applications in North America, uncovering widespread vulnerabilities and the urgent need for enhanced cybersecurity measures. It highlights the fast-paced technological advancements in the sector, alongside challenges such as supply chain vulnerabilities and the adoption of potentially insecure programming practices.
Tue 19 March 2024
New OWASP Mobile Top 10
Release of new OWASP Mobile Top 10 with improvements, updates and a behind the scenes.
Mon 27 November 2023
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Tue 08 August 2023