Saurabh
Mobile Security Summit 2011
This week, Charl van der Walt and I (Saurabh) spoke at Mobile Security Summit organized by IIR (http://www.iir.co.za/detail.php?e=2389).
Charl was the keynote speaker and presented his insight on the impact of the adoption of mobile devices throughout Africa and the subsequent rise of security related risks. During his talk, he addressed the following:
Understanding the need for mobile security to be taken seriously in Africa Analysing the broader implications for the user and the company The types of attacks occurring against mobile devices What does the future of mobile security look like and what are the potential threats to users? Understanding the particular threats posed by smartphones and other portable devices, e.g. tablets The presentation can be accessed via link below:
Decrypting iPhone Apps
This blog post steps through how to convert encrypted iPhone application bundles into plaintext application bundles that are easier to analyse.
Requirements:
1) Jailbroken iPhone with OpenSSH, gdb plus other utilities (com.ericasadun.utilities etc. etc.)
2) An iPhone app
3) On your machine:
otool (comes with iPhone SDK) Hex editor (0xED, HexWorkshop etc.) Ida – Version 5.2 through 5.6 supports remote debugging of iPhone applications (iphone_server). For this article, I will use the app name as “blah”.
Hacking by Numbers: Bootcamp Edition
Salut à tous,
It’s that time of the year again and like every year, we’ll once again be running our ever-popular “BOOTCAMP EDITION” at the BlackHat Briefings in Las Vegas this July-August. This course is part of our established Hacking by Numbers series. BUT, this year, only the name remains the same. We are slaving away at making this course cutting edge, providing you with a hands-on hacking experience on the latest operating systems, application frameworks and programming languages utilizing the latest tools and techniques. Gone are the days of IIS 5.0, Windows XP and we truly understand that [ed: for Bootcamp, maybe… Combat certainly contains an OS older than Win95].
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