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Android Security Cookbook
Android Security Cookbook' breaks down and enumerates the processes used to exploit and remediate Android app security vulnerabilities in the form of detailed recipes and walkthroughs."Android Security Cookbook" is aimed at anyone who is curious about Android app security and wants to be able to take the necessary practical measures to protect themselves; this means that Android application developers, security researchers and analysts, penetration testers, and generally any CIO, CTO, or IT managers facing the impeding onslaught of mobile devices in the business environment will benefit from reading this book.
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350 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 23, 2013
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March 28, 2014
A review: Android Security Cookbook
About the book: Security researchers, analysts, and penetration testers will enjoy the chapters of how to exploit the Android apps. Application developers with a desire to learn more about security will gain practical advice on how to protect their applications from attacks.
Requirement for book: Some necessary tools and knowledge requirements are specified in the beginning of the book which makes it easy for readers to understand the criteria of their significance of reading this book.
Important Points:
1. The book for is for android professionals and security analysts and not for the beginners.
2. The book deals with security practices for android operating systems and focuses it in detail.
3. In the starting chapters, it is clearly mentioned in the book that how to prepare a platform to start digging into the security analysis of the android code.
4. In the mid chapters, author focuses on how to exploit the android applications with some examples which is really helpful and easy to understand for the readers.
5. Further reading deals with application fixes which aims at protecting the android application.
6. Secure method of programming with encryption is also given in detail which focuses on encryption correctly and avoids some of the common anti pattern to keep data within your application secure.
7. Though all packt books contains example codes, so this book has it which is beneficial for developers.
8. Book is a detail overview of security practices and is very useful for android developers and security analysts.
9. Book has code examples with in depth theory which makes it easy to read and understand.
Final overview: Book is easy to read and very concise in example codes which makes it handy to follow the topics. I recommend the people who like work for android, must read this helpful book and enhances your code with security practices.
Book link: http://www.packtpub.com/android-secur...
About the book: Security researchers, analysts, and penetration testers will enjoy the chapters of how to exploit the Android apps. Application developers with a desire to learn more about security will gain practical advice on how to protect their applications from attacks.
Requirement for book: Some necessary tools and knowledge requirements are specified in the beginning of the book which makes it easy for readers to understand the criteria of their significance of reading this book.
Important Points:
1. The book for is for android professionals and security analysts and not for the beginners.
2. The book deals with security practices for android operating systems and focuses it in detail.
3. In the starting chapters, it is clearly mentioned in the book that how to prepare a platform to start digging into the security analysis of the android code.
4. In the mid chapters, author focuses on how to exploit the android applications with some examples which is really helpful and easy to understand for the readers.
5. Further reading deals with application fixes which aims at protecting the android application.
6. Secure method of programming with encryption is also given in detail which focuses on encryption correctly and avoids some of the common anti pattern to keep data within your application secure.
7. Though all packt books contains example codes, so this book has it which is beneficial for developers.
8. Book is a detail overview of security practices and is very useful for android developers and security analysts.
9. Book has code examples with in depth theory which makes it easy to read and understand.
Final overview: Book is easy to read and very concise in example codes which makes it handy to follow the topics. I recommend the people who like work for android, must read this helpful book and enhances your code with security practices.
Book link: http://www.packtpub.com/android-secur...
June 20, 2024
Quite outdated now, but the content itself is not bad.
March 27, 2014
Android has quickly become one of the most popular mobile operating system with more than 46% share,
not only to users but also developers and companies.
Companies that are looking to be fully adapted to the mobile world, develop their own applications on the Android platform.
These applications have seen massive growth in capability and complexity and became quite popular to malicious adversaries.
Android users and developers express a need to be constantly aware of their mobile security
risks and, because of this need, mobile security and risk assessment specialists and security
engineers are in high demand.
To address this problem efficiently, I recommmend reading the book 'Android Security Cookbook' from 'Packt Publishing' (see http://bit.ly/1ffPcZ9 )
'Android Security Cookbook' discusses many common vulnerabilities and security related shortcomings in Android applications and operating systems.
The book breaks down and enumerates the processes used to exploit and remediate these vulnerabilities in the form of detailed recipes and walkthroughs.
The book also teaches readers to use an Android Security Assessment Framework called Drozer and how to develop plugins to customize the framework.
Other topics covered include how to reverse-engineer Android applications to find common vulnerabilities, and how to find common memory corruption
vulnerabilities on ARM devices.
In terms of application protection this book will show various hardening techniques to protect application components,
the data stored, secure networking.
In summary, 'Android Security Cookbook' provides a practical analysis into many areas of Android application and
operating system security and gives the reader the required skills to analyze the security of their Android devices.
'Android Security Cookbook' is aimed at anyone who is interested in Android app security and wants to be able to take the necessary practical
measures to protect themselves; this means that Android application developers, security researchers and analysts, penetration testers, and generally
any CIO, CTO, or IT managers facing the impeding onslaught of mobile devices in the business environment will benefit from reading this book.
not only to users but also developers and companies.
Companies that are looking to be fully adapted to the mobile world, develop their own applications on the Android platform.
These applications have seen massive growth in capability and complexity and became quite popular to malicious adversaries.
Android users and developers express a need to be constantly aware of their mobile security
risks and, because of this need, mobile security and risk assessment specialists and security
engineers are in high demand.
To address this problem efficiently, I recommmend reading the book 'Android Security Cookbook' from 'Packt Publishing' (see http://bit.ly/1ffPcZ9 )
'Android Security Cookbook' discusses many common vulnerabilities and security related shortcomings in Android applications and operating systems.
The book breaks down and enumerates the processes used to exploit and remediate these vulnerabilities in the form of detailed recipes and walkthroughs.
The book also teaches readers to use an Android Security Assessment Framework called Drozer and how to develop plugins to customize the framework.
Other topics covered include how to reverse-engineer Android applications to find common vulnerabilities, and how to find common memory corruption
vulnerabilities on ARM devices.
In terms of application protection this book will show various hardening techniques to protect application components,
the data stored, secure networking.
In summary, 'Android Security Cookbook' provides a practical analysis into many areas of Android application and
operating system security and gives the reader the required skills to analyze the security of their Android devices.
'Android Security Cookbook' is aimed at anyone who is interested in Android app security and wants to be able to take the necessary practical
measures to protect themselves; this means that Android application developers, security researchers and analysts, penetration testers, and generally
any CIO, CTO, or IT managers facing the impeding onslaught of mobile devices in the business environment will benefit from reading this book.
March 26, 2014
Android Security Cookbook, the magnificent book which goes through the various security features offered by the Android in Apps. It also covers methods which can be used by the developers to protect the highly adaptive Operating System, that's Android.
The book deals with the prerequisites, usage of the features in apps present in OS, the tools for development. It continues with examining of security resources, reverse engineering of the apps which relates to the Dex and the Smali files. The network security of the part is fabulous, which have a clear concept of the security related to the network based app developments. The developers can gain a lot of knowledge to playing with the security feature of platform related to rooting and can perform low level attacks. The Android Device Administration API part can boost up the Encryption and device administrative policies of Android with Third party security featured library knowledge.
This book is for the Android Developers who want to developer better app to support the updating Digital world. For more :-www.packtpub.com/android-security-coo...
The book deals with the prerequisites, usage of the features in apps present in OS, the tools for development. It continues with examining of security resources, reverse engineering of the apps which relates to the Dex and the Smali files. The network security of the part is fabulous, which have a clear concept of the security related to the network based app developments. The developers can gain a lot of knowledge to playing with the security feature of platform related to rooting and can perform low level attacks. The Android Device Administration API part can boost up the Encryption and device administrative policies of Android with Third party security featured library knowledge.
This book is for the Android Developers who want to developer better app to support the updating Digital world. For more :-www.packtpub.com/android-security-coo...
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