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CRESTCon 2015

Wednesday, March 18, 2015 3 years ago ,

MWR will be presenting two talks at the 3rd information security event jointly organised by CREST and the Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP).

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Event Description

Now in its third year, this joint event from CREST, the professional body that represents the technical information security industry, and the Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP) attracts over 300 delegates from the information security industry.

CRESTCon & IISP Congress brings together leading technical, business and academic experts to address the most critical and up-to-date, information security threats and challenges, as well as to collaborate and harness their considerable joint industry knowledge and experience.

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Talks presented by MWR

Topic: Fracking with Hybrid Mobile Applications
Speakers: David Hartley

Hybrid mobile applications combine the features of web applications and “native” mobile applications using cross-platform languages such as HTML and JavaScript. These applications are developed using frameworks such as PhoneGap, with the development approach typically providing an embedded web browser. This browser (WebView) executes the application’s web code, providing a “bridge” that allows the web code to access local resources on the device.

There are a number of pros and cons to this approach, from both a technical and business perspective. Understandably, there are also a number of security considerations for developers, testers and the wider business to understand before employing this method.

In order to provide an overview of the attack surface, this talk will explain how hybrid applications work under the hood. This should then highlight the weaknesses in commonly-deployed-defences and will go on to discuss how attackers can compromise hybrid applications.

You can register for tickets to CRESTCon 2015 here

 

 

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