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Reverse engineering Android apps Reverse engineering an Android application typically involves using specialized tools to decompile the applications compiled code and resources into a human-readable form. As we go through this blog post, we will...

Reverse engineering iOS apps iOS applications are distributed as compiled binaries and are not readable by default. To reverse engineer an iOS application, the binary needs to be disassembled into a form that is easier to read and understand. This...

In this blog post, we will look at certificate pinning, how it is implemented for iOS and Android and the associated risks of using this added security control.

Storing data is essential to many mobile applications. What data is being stored? How is the data being stored? How is my data being protected? These are all great questions. In this blog post we are going to demonstrate exploiting local Android...

Storing data is essential to many mobile applications. What data is being stored? How is the data being stored? How is my data being protected? These are all great questions. In this blog post, we are going to demonstrate how to examine, detect and...

Introduction: How to debug code using Corellium Testing Corellium for another release we found out that Xcode is unable to prepare some iOS 15.x virtual devices for development. Moreover, Xcode doesn't return any errors and seems to be just stuck...

Introduction — iOS security testing woes Want to sideload your iOS application for mobile security testing? Or do you want to pass your application to QA, dev or third-party teams? Are you struggling with binary signing and consistent errors? This...

Persistence is a tactic used by attackers and jailbreakers1 to maintain a foothold on a device after reboot, and can be a valuable component of an exploit chain. Fundamentally, this requires attacker-controlled data to be processed at some point in...

Overview In this guide, we'll be setting up a Corellium iOS virtual device to perform debugging of web applications using Safari's Web Inspector tool. For web developers, this is useful for testing rapid tweaks to CSS or troubleshooting responsive...

It’s difficult to find technically useful, well contributed information on mobile security testing and mobile software development life cycle (SDLC) best practices. There is a lot of high-level info scattered around, and it seems like new government...

In 2021, Arm gave us a glimpse into the future by unveiling the next-generation of Arm processors: the Armv9 architecture. This is a huge deal for the future of mobile devices. The device you’re carrying around in your pocket is almost certainly...

1. Apple special sauce: The M1 Processor When Apple released their desktop products with the M1 processor in November 2020, quite a few people in the tech community were surprised by the excellent performance of these systems. But those who have...