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The first comprehensive guide to discovering and preventing attacks on the Android OS

As the Android operating system continues to increase its share of the smartphone market, smartphone hacking remains a growing threat. Written by experts who rank among the world's foremost Android security researchers, this book presents vulnerability discovery, analysis, and exploitation tools for the good guys. Following a detailed explanation of how the Android OS works and its overall security architecture, the authors examine how vulnerabilities can be discovered and exploits developed for various system components, preparing you to defend against them.

If you are a mobile device administrator, security researcher, Android app developer, or consultant responsible for evaluating Android security, you will find this guide is essential to your toolbox.

  • A crack team of leading Android security researchers explain Android security risks, security design and architecture, rooting, fuzz testing, and vulnerability analysis
  • Covers Android application building blocks and security as well as debugging and auditing Android apps
  • Prepares mobile device administrators, security researchers, Android app developers, and security consultants to defend Android systems against attack
Android Hacker's Handbook is the first comprehensive resource for IT professionals charged with smartphone security.
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A complete guide to securing the Android operating system

The Android Hacker’s Handbook provides network security professionals and mobile device administrators with the specifics of the Android operating system from a security standpoint. This book explains how the operating system works, security risks associated with it, and the overall security architecture of the operating system. It also explains how vulnerabilities can be found in, and exploits developed for, various components of the system.

Written by some of the world’s foremost Android security researchers, the Android Hacker’s Handbook is the only resource of its kind to explore Android security on this level. This essential guide includes both implementation details as well as complexities introduced by the open nature of the OS.

Learn to:

  • Become familiar with security implementation details, as well as complexities introduced by the open nature of the Android OS
  • Avoid common security pitfalls and stay ahead of the latest smartphone hacking strategies
  • Review the various types of attacks that have been successful against the Android OS
  • Explore rooting and gain an understanding of the partition layout, boot process
  • Understand the complex nature of the Android ecosystem, including the impact of various hardware vendors and software developers

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A complete guide to securing the Android operating system

The Android Hacker’s Handbook provides network security professionals and mobile device administrators with the specifics of the Android operating system from a security standpoint. This book explains how the operating system works, security risks associated with it, and the overall security architecture of the operating system. It also explains how vulnerabilities can be found in, and exploits developed for, various components of the system.

Written by some of the world’s foremost Android security researchers, the Android Hacker’s Handbook is the only resource of its kind to explore Android security on this level. This essential guide includes both implementation details as well as complexities introduced by the open nature of the OS.

Learn to:

  • Become familiar with security implementation details, as well as complexities introduced by the open nature of the Android OS
  • Avoid common security pitfalls and stay ahead of the latest smartphone hacking strategies
  • Review the various types of attacks that have been successful against the Android OS
  • Explore rooting and gain an understanding of the partition layout, boot process
  • Understand the complex nature of the Android ecosystem, including the impact of various hardware vendors and software developers

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wiley; 1st edition (March 31, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 576 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 111860864X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1118608647
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.28 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.1 x 1.2 x 9.1 inches
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    Pau Oliva Fora (@pof) is a security consultant and enjoys a diverse and challenging role performing penetration testing, reverse engineering and vulnerability discovery. Pau has a strong passion for Android security, and has worked as Mobile Security Engineer doing projects for major OEMs, government, law enforcement, health and finance sectors. He has been actively researching security aspects of the Android operating system since its debut on 2008 and is co-author of Wiley's Android Hacker's Handbook. Pau has spoken at a variety of security conferences, including DefCon, RSA, Android Security Symposium, OWASP, NoConName, RootedCon, Radare2Con and LaCon. When he's not poking around mobile devices, he enjoys playing Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo and listening to Chiptune music.

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    Zach Lanier is a Senior Security Researcher at Duo Security. He has been "doing security" since 2001. In 2009, he started focusing more on mobile and embedded device security, from apps to platforms (especially Android), mobile network, and carrier security. He has presented at various public and private industry conferences, such as BlackHat, CanSecWest, DEFCON, ShmooCon, and more.

    You can find him at https://n0where.org/ and https://labs.duosecurity.com/

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    Collin Mulliner is a postdoctoral researcher in the Systems Security Lab at

    Northeastern University. He received a Ph.D. from the Technische Universität Berlin in 2011, and a M.S. and B.S. in computer science from UC Santa Barbara and FH-Darmstadt, respectively. Collin's main area of expertise is the security and privacy of mobile and embedded systems with an emphasis on mobile and smart phones. He further has a specific interest in vulnerability analysis and offensive security. Recently he switched his focus to the defensive side to work on mitigations and countermeasures. Collin is a regular speaker at conferences such as CanSecWest, Black Hat, SyScan, Defcon, Hack in the Box, and CCC.

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  • Aditya Gupta
    5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book put together by the experts
    Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2014
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    Just finished reading the book - "Android Hackers Handbook". Truth be told, you can't find any other book which covers Android security and exploitation in such a detailed approach like this one.

    After reading through each chapter, you'll feel like you've gained a huge knowledge base, which you could immediately apply in real-life scenario. I personally liked 4 chapters out of the total 13 the most - Debugging and Analysing Vulnerabilities (Chap7), User Space (Chap 8) Exploitation, ROP(Chap9) and Attacking RIL (Chap 11) .

    Almost all of the concepts are explained along with the real code sample, which will help you when you try it out on your device. A perfect 5 for this book coming from the experts in Android Security.
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  • Jeff Jansen
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good for history buffs
    Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2017
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    Out of date now but that's to be expected in this game of ours. Still a good intro into vulns and a good history for the purpose of perspective. Too bad new vulns are few and far between...ah the good old days of Android. So much fun and unprotected (spoken from the root desired perspective, not black hax). (:
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  • Oko
    5.0 out of 5 stars Book that focuses on a single platform with deserved depth
    Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2014
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    I have not finished the book and honestly I am not even close, but I wanted to give a review anyway because the technical depth of the book is amazing. This is not like some of the other books which provides content from web and other sources. This is original material and serious read. I am hoping to extend this review when I make progress to completion.
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  • Vladimirror
    3.0 out of 5 stars Book Assume's The Reader is An Engineer, Couldn't Finish Because Necessary Background Was Not Mentioned in Book Description
    Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2015
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    Haven't finished it yet, but the book does assume that the reader is an expert in many other computer science fields. One may say "well, duh," but even in the first chapter it appears that the author assumes one is an engineer.
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  • Primed
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book!
    Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2014
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    After reading the first chapter, you get a clear understanding of Android's origins and how the whole ecosystem works. The authors do an incredible job explaining things from start to finish. Chapter 3 on rooting devices also looks full of goodies. Great for plane and leisure reading, as well as to learn the fundamentals of Android security. Recommended for sure!
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    5.0 out of 5 stars For a software/electrical engineer who is new to Android, ...
    Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2016
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    For a software/electrical engineer who is new to Android, this book seems just right. It don't insult your intelligence by defining well known concepts. It gives precise information on the least understood subjects, or the subjects that are voluntarily kept in the dark.
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  • Tiago Alexandre Nunes de Carvalho
    1.0 out of 5 stars In shot a mess, i will think twice before buying any thing from any of the authors again.
    Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2015
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    The book is well organized, sadly missing alot of details.
    The first chapters are not well structured, with a lot of missing details, hardly reproducible, the enviroment setup is not explaind correctly.
    Some chapters have only 2 pages, crear lack of information an will to write decent chapter.
    The only thing decent in the intire book is a single vuln. Explained in resonable detail.
    In shot a mess, i will think twice before buying any thing from any of the authors again.
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  • M.
    4.0 out of 5 stars Well written and easy to follow
    Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2015
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    This book is an expansive guide to Android's security architecture. It is easy-to-follow and well-written, not riddled with typos and poorly laid out like many computer science textbooks. It can be a bit wordy and very technical. This is not a book for people new to Android, you should have some experience with Java and C if you want to fully appreciate this book.
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  • Fabrice
    4.0 out of 5 stars Super mais en anglais
    Reviewed in France on June 13, 2014
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    Un super ouvrage pour les utilisateurs de produits utilisant Android (smartphones, tablettes etc.)

    Pour les anglophones. Un livre assez pointu pour les non connaisseurs des systèmes et de la programmation sous Unix/Linux et Java, mais accessible à tout curieux de ce monde ouvert et/ou à tout curieux de ce que fait son portable android, et comment mieux le gérer.

    A conseiller à tout curieux (anglophone) de ce qu'est une machine Android et comment l'atteindre au cœur.

    Ouvrage récent ( couvrant jusqu'à Android 4.4.2 )
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  • Lismore
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 28, 2016
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    Great book the right level of in depth technical detail needed.

    I rooted my new phone soon after
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  • Swaraj Pavitrakar
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in India on April 1, 2018
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    This was quite good and the delivery was perfect on time too.
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  • yadoc
    5.0 out of 5 stars Nice book
    Reviewed in Spain on January 29, 2015
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    Very interesting book with a different perspective on Google Android operating system from the hackers view. Nice format and index.
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  • Marcel Bolli
    5.0 out of 5 stars Optimal für Entwickler
    Reviewed in Germany on August 11, 2016
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    Ein Buch, das jeder Android Entwickler sich anschauen sollte. Sehr gute Beschreibungen, gut strukturiert. Security Design, Rooting, Hardware Attacks, etc. Wie es der Buchtitel beschreibt
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