Description: Mobile applications are a part of every person.s, and every organization.s life. The potential for internal compromise is extremely high in relation to mobile applications due the common architecture that relies on a backend server. It is difficult to understand how easy it is to reverse engineer and modify mobile application unless you do it on a daily basis. In turn, it is difficult to realize what vulnerabilities exist within mobile applications, the backend servers accompanying those applications, and what compromises can take place. This talk focuses on helping security experts and mobile developers understand how attackers reverse engineer mobile applications, what an attacker has access to, and how easy it is to circumvent local security implementations. Attendees will be shown real world applications, how the applications security was circumvented, and what consequences occurred. This talk will give insight to security professionals and developers how a malicious user will reverse engineer their applications and how to prevent those attacks. Finally, a new tool to simplify reverse engineering of Android applications will be made available to those who attend the talk and open sourced.
Mathew is currently a senior consultant at Matasano. He has been in the security world for the past 6 years and enjoys breaking things simply by looking at them. In his spare time he likes to troll his friends - they do not know what the term 'troll' means.
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