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Tools to help test the security of Android applications

What are some decent frameworks to test the security of Android applications? With frameworks I mean either software based to automatically scan these applications or a guide (like OWASP has for ...
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List of Top security risk/attack scenarios for android application

WHat are the possible security risk/attack scenarios for android application. This is with regards to the OWASP top 10 Mobile Security threats discussed here: ...
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Smartphone SSH clients with shared user

I am writing an application for smartphones to provide very limited SSH usage. The user cannot perform arbitrary actions when logged in. They can run a specific script(s) only. For various reasons ...
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How to harden an iPhone/Android app so its tough to reverse-engineer it?

These are the following objectives I have in mind: Make the app hard to crack, as the binary will hold some secret tokens. If it still can be cracked, is there any way the app can tell someone or ...
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Are there any established mobile security frameworks or secure coding guidelines available?

I am looking for security frameworks and secure coding guidelines especially for mobile devices (Android and iOS). The languages I am interested in are Objective-C, JAVA and HTML5. If there are no ...
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Is there a drawback for local log in compared to server log in?

For developing a mobile app, there is a choice of storing usernames and password data in the device itself, or in a server (user will be authenticated to a server). Other than possibly the user have ...
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Preventing users from tampering with replay data [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Protect application from being modified This probably belongs here as much as it does belong in gamedev.stackexchange.com, but I suppose I might find better technical ...
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Which encryption algo should be best for an Android application [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Which type of encryption algorithms android supports, and which would be better? I am confused about to use of DES. Triple DES, RSA and AES algorithms, I think I ...
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Protect application from being modified

I have a question about how to protect a program from modification if that program is able to communicate with a remote validation server. More specifically I'm asking for android APK file, but it can ...
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how to secure Android Market public key

Android's security manual says that it is not safe to keep market public key just as a string and it should be hidden/encoded somehow. I am new to android Can somebody please provide me with example ...
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iOS/Android authentication and security

Here is what I am trying to do and can anyone provide some best practice advice for authentication and security? Each user will have their own private database on the cloud. He will have his local ...
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How to secure an application under iOS against jailbroken devices

I noticed that some apps, e.g. Skype, is capable to exit and not run in case one has jailbroken his iOS based device. I couldn't find online how to check that a device is jailbroken. Please anyhelp ...
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How to implement a “Remember me” on a mobile app?

I would like to implement a "Remember Me" time-limited auto-login type feature on a mobile application (on Android). To start the app, the user must type in a username and password. For convenience, ...
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Any useful tools for Android source code review? [closed]

I'm wondering if anyone has some recommendations for Android source code review which is Java based. For example, reviewing an Android app for security issues. Bonus for being F/OSS. Fortify seems ...
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How should I protect in-app Android payments when using a separate server?

I am currently implementing Android in-app payments, and am wondering what attack vectors I should look out for. I have a simple application to view server-generated content. I want to allow the user ...
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Which is more secure: develop a mobile app in its Native language or using cross-platform UI?

I am just wondering if there are benefits from a security perspective to develop a mobile App either as native app or as a cross-platform UI app, in particular Rhodes? I need to develop an application ...