iOS Hacker’s Handbook – Jumpstart your hacking skills
Have you ever wanted to do any hacking on the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or Apple TV? There will soon be a book released that can help guide you in hacking iOS devices.
The book uses a collaboration of authors to explain how the iOS operating system works and how to find exploits in it.
The list of authors for the book includes; Charlie Miller, Dion Blazakis, Dion DaiZovi, Stefan Esser, Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf-Phillip Weinmann.
Charlie Miller is a well known security expert who has uncovered iOS vulnerabilities in the past and Stefan Esser (i0n1c) is known for finding exploits in iOS 4.3.1 that provided an untethered jailbreak for iOS devices.
The book also uses MucleNerd as a tech editor for all six of the skilled authors. MuscleNerd is a member of the iPhone Dev Team and one of the most famous hackers in the jailbreaking community.
Discover all the security risks and exploits that can threaten iOS-based mobile devices
iOS is Apple’s mobile operating system for the iPhone and iPad. With the introduction of iOS5, many security issues have come to light. This book explains and discusses them all. The award-winning author team, experts in Mac and iOS security, examines the vulnerabilities and the internals of iOS to show how attacks can be mitigated. The book explains how the operating system works, its overall security architecture, and the security risks associated with it, as well as exploits, rootkits, and other payloads developed for it.
Covers iOS security architecture, vulnerability hunting, exploit writing, and how iOS jailbreaks work
Explores iOS enterprise and encryption, code signing and memory protection, sandboxing, iPhone fuzzing, exploitation, ROP payloads, and baseband attacks
Also examines kernel debugging and exploitation
Companion website includes source code and tools to facilitate your efforts
iOS Hacker’s Handbook arms you with the tools needed to identify, understand, and foil iOS attacks.
The iOS Hacker’s Handbook is available at Amazon for pre-order for $29.99, that is a 35% discount off the list price of $44.99.