Android Attack: Reversing React Native Applications

Estimated difficulty: 💜💜🤍🤍🤍 This post is going to walk you through how to reverse engineer an Android application that is built using React Native. It is more common to see applications being built using this mobile framework, as it supports the development of an app in both Android and iOS platforms. Let’s unpack this further! …

MOBster4: Insecure Authentication

Estimated difficulty: 💜💜💜💜🤍 We are continuing on our quest to conquer the OWASP Mobile Top 10, and if you have been following this series then congratulations, you have made it to M4: Insecure Authentication! This post is going to delve into the world of how mobile apps can use weak authentication methods and how an …

It’s All About Communication, Insecure Communication!

Estimated difficulty: 💜💜💜🤍🤍 Welcome back to another MOBster post! It’s part three of our OWASP Mobile Top 10 series and in this post, we are covering M3: Insecure Communication! The previous MOBster post covered M2: Insecure Data Storage, and you can check that out here. Like M2: Insecure Data Storage, this vulnerability is easy to …

Liability: Insecure Data Storage

Estimated difficulty: 💜💜💜🤍🤍 Oh no, it’s another one from the MOBster series coming to get you! Hide… Run… Read with intrigue! This post is covering, M2: Insecure Data Storage, the second listing from the OWASP Top 10 Mobile Risks list. The last post in the MOBster series covered M1: Improper Platform Usage. Insecure data storage …

What’s that coming over the hill? Is it a MOBster, is it a MOBster!?

Estimated difficulty: 💜💜💜💜🤍 Welcome back to the MOBster series! The last post I published, covered the different aspects of an APK file – otherwise known as an app. This post I want to take some of these principles a step further and look at the possible effects of a misconfigured app! Following the guidelines of …

How Does Your Mobile Communicate? The Generation Time Warp!

Estimated difficulty: 💜💜💜🤍🤍 In light of recent worries around 5G and its effects on the population (in particular the theory of it causing COVID-19), I thought I would try to demystify the cellular network generations and provide an understanding of how they have developed; in particular, focusing on the security and networking side of things. …