A CASE STUDY OF PENETRATION TESTING FOR ANDROID DEVICES

Abstract

Nowadays we have an increase in the usage of the internet, smartphones and smart devices. This gives a higher demand on applications and especially on security levels. Users are sharing confidential and sensitive information of any kind in basically every app and electronic device. To prevent leaking of this information, security testing comes as a measure for it. Security testing provides a clear vulnerability of the system by checking the loopholes through ethical testing. In this thesis, security testing and penetration testing methods are used in order to test different hacking methods for android devices, and a comparison between different methods is done. In the end, some suggestions on how to prevent different attacking methods are given.