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I'm going to be studying pentesting iPhone apps. I'm a beginner in this area, and would like some guidance on the prerequisites of pen testing an iphone app, the details of the Mac machine that I'd need, and how I can go about setting up a simulator environment to test the iPhone app on the machine ...any guidance will be appreciated.

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The basic IDE environment is prerequisite. You should start with available documentation or look on StackOverflow. That information should answer all your questions as the iPhone development kit includes a virtual iPhone environment. Once you're comfortable with the normal flow, then we can help you with how to do more advanced work. – Jeff Ferland♦ Feb 7 '12 at 15:47
This question isn't really suitable here - as it is too broad. Lucas and Jeff have given you a starting point. Once you have begun, if you have problem areas specific to security we may be able to help. – Rory Alsop♦ Feb 7 '12 at 15:59

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The third link in google provided a nice paper by McAffee. You will be needing the SDK for iOS and Snow Leopard or Lion.

It provides information about:

  • decompiling
  • static code analysis
  • dynamic code analysis
  • vulnerabilities (known)
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