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Photo credit: iStock.com/Evkaz We are all very aware of the issues around phishing of user credentials. But it is not only users that can be phished, apps can be too. In previous blogs we’ve shown you how you can make a MITM attack against an app. In this blog we’ll demonstrate that a MITM attack against an app is analogous to a phishing attack against a human. Moreover, there are some similar characteristics to the protections required. Read Full Story

In a previous article we learned how to perform a MitM attack on a mobile app that doesn’t employ certificate pinning as a mechanism of preventing such attacks. Today I will show how to use the Frida instrumentation framework to hook into the mobile app at runtime and instrument the code in order to perform a successful MitM attack even when the mobile app has implemented certificate pinning. Read Full Story

Performing a MitM attack against an HTTPS channel requires the capability for the attacker to be able to add the proxy server Certificate Authority (CA) into the Trust Store of the device running the mobile app and a popular approach is to manually upload the CA to the device, but this comes with some challenges, that may require to root the device and/or repackage the mobile app. An easier way exists, and in this article I will show how to use an Android Emulator with a writable file system that will allow us to install the proxy certificate directly into the system trusted store, without the need to root the emulator or make changes in the mobile app. This is a hands on how to tutorial, that you can easily follow, even if you have not done a MitM attack before or you are just starting your developer Android journey. Read Full Story

In this article we are going to look at the key use cases you should consider around protecting access to your users’ accounts and what you should think about when building your gold standard security to protect them. Read Full Story

A common discussion that comes up with customers is how they should consider the security requirements of their mobile apps and of the APIs that service them. A recent incident involving Nissan provides a reminder of how easily best laid protections can unravel. Read Full Story

Man-in-the-Middle (MitM), or more correctly Person-in-the-Middle, is the technique of inserting yourself into API traffic to observe or manipulate requests and transactions as they pass by. In this article we’ll look at how it’s done and what you should do to prevent it, exploding a few misapprehensions on the way. Read Full Story

In 2009, the app economy officially kicked off with the Apple trademarked refrain “There’s an app for that.” A decade later, the mobile app is the center of gravity of the digital economy, transforming how we shop, bank, read, commute, socialize, work, travel, manage our health, and much more. Today, it seems, if there’s no app for that, then it’s probably not a fully digital experience. Read Full Story

It’s been nearly half a decade since Gartner declared the API economy open, hailing it the enabler that could transform businesses into platforms. Since then, APIs have significantly evolved beyond their rather simple origins as middleware integration tools. Read Full Story

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Anyone looking for a snapshot of how the COVID-19 pandemic is fuelling an e-commerce boom need look no further than Shopify’s recently released Q2 2020 financials. The platform witnessed a 71% jump in new store creation compared to the previous quarter this year. Every leading performance indicator was up in high double, or even triple, digits compared to Q2 2019 including sales (97%), gross merchandise volume (119%), merchant solutions revenue (148%), and adjusted per-share earnings (950%). Read Full Story