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A security analyst’s guide to NSAppTransportSecurity, NSAllowsArbitraryLoads, and App Transport Security (ATS) exceptions

By NowSecure Marketing / August 31, 2017 / Comments Off on A security analyst’s guide to NSAppTransportSecurity, NSAllowsArbitraryLoads, and App Transport Security (ATS) exceptions

I’ve recently noticed a spike in questions from our customers — and specifically security analysts — about App Transport Security (ATS), or NSAppTransportSecurity, for iOS apps. ATS is a critical security practice for our customers in financial services and other regulated industries. A lot of ATS documentation already exists, but questions persist. A core part […]

Android buckles down and iOS opens up? Trends in platform security affecting developers

By NowSecure Marketing / August 24, 2017 / 0 Comments

Monday night, NowSecure Director of Research David Weinstein highlighted key trends in Android and iOS security in 2016 and participated in a panel discussion during Security by Design’s event “iOS and Android Security – Differences You Need to Know” in McLean, VA. Security by Design educates developers about secure development practices by connecting them with security experts at […]

Raspberry PI hang instruction

By NowSecure Marketing / August 16, 2017 / Comments Off on Raspberry PI hang instruction

Some tips from one of our security pros.

World Writable Code Is Bad, MMMMKAY

By NowSecure Marketing / August 10, 2017 / 0 Comments

Introduction One of the core designs of the Android operating system’s sandbox is to assign different applications a unique user identifier (UID). By doing this, Android reuses the underlying Linux kernel and filesystem properties to enforce boundaries. There are certain situations where apps may share the same UID, but that requires they be signed with […]

The hacker behind open-source, reverse-engineering tool Radare previews the inaugural r2con

By NowSecure Marketing / August 9, 2017 / 0 Comments

Security Researcher Sergi Alvarez, better known by his nickname Pancake, has been behind the helm of the open source project Radare for ten years now. In the decade since Radare’s inception, the community surrounding and contributing to the project has grown immensely. Next month, researchers and friends of the project will head to Barcelona for […]

The latest in mobile app vetting technology: Announcing NowSecure Intelligence Early Access

By NowSecure Marketing / August 9, 2017 / Comments Off on The latest in mobile app vetting technology: Announcing NowSecure Intelligence Early Access

Because organizations need visibility into the security status of public app store apps, we’ve extended the NowSecure Platform to provide “AlwaysOn” mobile app vetting for third-party mobile apps with our new NowSecure Intelligence™ product.