Mobile Security

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Android Forensics & Security Testing

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This course will cover the most common issues facing mobile devices, and general tips for securing mobile applications. Upon completion of general mobile security overview, the course will delve into a proven practice in Mobile Device Forensics and Mobile Application Penetration Testing for Android devices. Over the two-day course, students will get hands-on time with open-source and commercial forensics tools, setup and explore reverse engineering development environments, and experience the process with which professional mobile security engineers have successfully applied to several projects. Areas covered include, identifying application vulnerabilities, code analysis, memory & file system analysis, and insecure storage of sensitive data.

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Introduction to ARM

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ARM processors are becoming ubiquitous in mobile devices today with RISC processors making a comeback for their applications in low power computing environments. With major operating systems choosing to run on these processors including the latest Windows RT, iOS and Android, understanding the low level operations of these processors can serve to better understand, optimize and debug software stacks running on them. This class builds on the Intro to x86 class and tries to provide parallels and differences between the two processor architectures wherever possible while focusing on the ARM instruction set, some of the ARM processor features, and how software works and runs on the ARM processor.

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Video Playlist: Introduction to ARM

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A Youtube playlist of the OpenSecurityTraining.info 'Introduction to ARM' course being delivered. ARM processors are becoming ubiquitous in mobile devices today with RISC processors making a comeback for their applications in low power computing environments. With major operating systems choosing to run on these processors including the latest Windows RT, iOS and Android, understanding the low level operations of these processors can serve to better understand, optimize and debug software stacks running on them. This class builds on the Intro to x86 class and tries to provide parallels and differences between the two processor architectures wherever possible while focusing on the ARM instruction set, some of the ARM processor features, and how software works and runs on the ARM processor.

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