The Mobile Application Hacker's Handbook

I am a penetration tester and I found this book is is an excellent guide for assessing mobile applications. The other platform-specific books are great if you want to become a true expert in a specific platform, but this book provides the right amount of information for evaluating an application in a reasonable time frame. Don't be confused by the page counts (which was my biggest concern), I found this book to contain more useful application vulnerability information than the platform-specific books. More importantly, it provides the information you'll want to know, such as how to find the vulnerabilities in the application and in the code, and how to remediate them. The other books are great if you want to find advanced exploits, such as memory corruption attacks, including kernel exploits, but for general mobile application assessment, this is what I'd recommend. I hope they keep this book updated regularly since a lot of the details will be out of date in several years. Full disclosure: I have not read the Windows Mobile or Blackberry sections.

If you're looking for ways to assess mobile applications, this is the book for you. This book is to mobile application penetration testing as the Web Application Hacker's Handbook is to web app penetration testing. The iOS Hacker's Handbook and Android Hacker's Handbooks are more device and OS-centric, whereas this book will give you the methodology to get up to speed testing the applications running on each of these platforms. (There is a small section on Windows Phone hacking as well). It's a good resource to get you from zero knowledge to dangerous enough.

Awesome mobile security resource - in depth, insightful, and well written. This book will be your guide from basic to advanced mobile security and assessments. The book is divided into platforms so it is an easy reference when completing platform dependent testing. My frequent go to reference when conducting mobile application penetration testing.

The book is as you would expect. It is the same as the Web Application Hacking Handbook. In almost every way.

I am a professional penetration tester who specializes in mobile applications. This book does a good job of covering the basics and if you are looking to get started in mobile pen testing this is a great place to start. It has sections dedicated to iOS, Android, Windows and Blackberry applications.

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Good starting place for someone getting into mobile security

Great book. Highly recommend