New website, who dis? Welcome to my new website! I hope to use this site much more than in the previous 10 years as I am now in a new, innovative, and community driven company: SCYTHE. This is my personal site so I plan to use it to share the events I will be attending. As you know, […]
As I have spent some time researching and developing a WP8 application security testing methodology and process, I have come up with three key security features that are missing from Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8. From an offensive security perspective, these feature are good to have for testing but from an end user perspective, they are […]
By now you should be familiar with the WP8 app you are testing and need to see the type of traffic it is sending to transmit data to the Internet. This post will show you how to use an HTTP proxy, configure it on the WP8 device, and install a digital certificate to see HTTPS […]
The first three posts in this series were an introduction to WP8 platform, prerequisites for testing, and side loading the XAP file. At this point you should have the app installed on your device or emulator. If a XAP file was not provided, obtain the app from the Microsoft App Store as an end user […]
This is the third part of a series on testing WP8 Apps. The first post introduced you to the WP8 platform and the second post had you install the prerequisites. This post will focus on the XAP file and side loading it onto your device or emulator. Side loading is the act of installing an […]
This is the second post of a series on WP8 App Security and is focused on setting up the environment where you will test WP8 apps. You should already have a basic understanding of how the WP8 platform works. We will focus on the prerequisites for the tools and methods required to test WP8 apps. […]
In this post and series we will dive into the process and methods used to test the security of Windows Phone 8 (WP8) app. Let’s say you are tasked with performing a security assessment, ethical hack, vulnerability assessment, or a penetration test of a WP8 app, where do you begin? This is where! WP8 Platform Before […]
Now that evad3rs released evasi0n to jailbreak iOS 7 we may begin testing iOS apps on iOS 7! This post will cover the steps and tools to set up your jailbroken iOS 7 device for testing mobile apps. From the Cydia app on the device, search and install the following: OpenSSH MobileTerminal BigBoss Recommended Tools […]
Continuing my exploration of iOS Apps, I setup an email account with the iOS Mail App and Hotmail. The iOS Mail App will use whatever protocol it is configured to use to retrieve and send email. In this case, I chose Microsoft Hotmail. To capture traffic and see what is going back and forth, I […]
Following this week’s hype of HTTP Request Hijacking presented at RSA Europe 2013, I began experimenting with iOS apps that use HTTP instead of HTTPS. In this post I will summarize the presented attack vector and focus on the iOS Stocks App. Summary of HTTP Request Hijacking HTTP Request Hijacking should only work on apps […]