iOS Hacker's Handbook 1st Edition

by Charlie Miller (Author), Dion Blazakis (Author), Dino DaiZovi (Author),

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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.

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They can crack the code. Here's how to stop them.

The world loves iOS. Users love the convenience. Black hats love the vulnerability. This book arms you with the knowledge and tools to protect your organization's iOS devices. If you're a developer, it will also help you create hack-resistant applications.

These highly qualified iOS experts review iOS security architecture, examine the internals, and reveal the vulnerabilities. They show you how iOS jailbreaks work and explore encryption, code signing and memory protection, sandboxing, iPhone fuzzing, exploitation, ROP payloads, and baseband attacks. Here's a complete toolkit for defending your iOS devices.

Examine the internals and identify the vulnerabilities of iOS
Explore all the elements of encryption, vulnerability hunting, and exploit writing
Review some common payloads and see what can and can't be done on iOS with ROP
Learn more about kernel debugging and exploitation, with an overview of kernel structure and a look at auditing IOKit drivers
Look at techniques for fuzzing PDF and PowerPoint® documents in MobileSafari
Study different jailbreak types

Companion website

Source code and additional tools are available at www.wiley.com/go/ioshackershandbook

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They can crack the code. Here's how to stop them.

Examine the internals and identify the vulnerabilities of iOS
Explore all the elements of encryption, vulnerability hunting, and exploit writing
Review some common payloads and see what can and can't be done on iOS with ROP
Learn more about kernel debugging and exploitation, with an overview of kernel structure and a look at auditing IOKit drivers
Look at techniques for fuzzing PDF and PowerPoint® documents in MobileSafari
Study different jailbreak types

Companion website

Source code and additional tools are available at www.wiley.com/go/ioshackershandbook

Publisher : Wiley; 1st edition (April 20, 2012)
Language: : English
Paperback : 408 pages
ISBN-10 : 1118204123
ISBN-13 : 978-1118204122
Item Weight : 1.53 pounds
Dimensions : 7.38 x 0.92 x 9.25 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,009,587 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #280 in Macintosh Operating System
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- #1,013 in Computer Hacking

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Justin D.

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2017

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helps me learn

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JRud

Excellent Review of the Concepts needed to Understand Jailbreaking

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2012

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I preordered this book so I have been reading it for about a week now. It is a wonderful book on security research for iOS devices. Don't expect to write a jailbreak for the newest devices after reading this book though, as that would require much experience in writing exploits, fuzzing, kernel debugging and ROP, which is completely understandable. It is foolish to believe that reading one book will allow you to write jailbreaks and find exploits with ease.

The book begins covering sandboxing, code signing and iOS enterprise applications, and their weaknesses. The chapter on fuzzing was very explanatory on the techniques used to do so. It covered fuzzing PDF and powerpoint documents in mobile safari, as well as SMS fuzzing. The next chapter talks about exploitation on iOS devices, focusing on heap exploits and in turn, memory allocation and deallocation.

The chapter on ROP explains what is capable and not capable with return oriented programming, and gives two great examples of such techniques. Following that is a chapter on kernel exploitation, describing how to reverse the IOKit kernel drivers and finding vulnerabilities, as well as how to exploit vulnerabilities once found. This chapter concludes with a demonstration on the heap fang shui technique used for heap buffer overflow exploits.

The jailbreaking chapter is not particularly long, but that is because the techniques used have been described in other parts of the book. This chapter examines the redsn0w jailbreak and describes each step performed by it, including the different kernel patches applied by the jailbreak.

The final chapter covers baseband hacking, which I have not read in detail yet. It appears, at first glance, to cover general knowledge on cell networks leading into the RTOS used on the baseband chips, and ending with a description of the ultrasn0w unlock.

Overall, I would recommend anyone who is interested in the techniques and steps used to find vulnerabilities and exploit them, leading to the development of a jailbreak for an iOS device.

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Primed

Excellent security overview of iOS

Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2012

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I pre-ordered this book months ago, and got exactly what I was looking for: an in depth look at iOS security. It doesn't just talk about the present, but also takes a look at how far iOS has came since version 1. You'll find little details throughout that give you insight to some of the events and vulnerabilities that the authors (and others) were involved in. Great buy, especially if you're looking to learn more about mobile security.

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Kevin H

Fantastic guide to the security architecture of iOS

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2013

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There isn't a lot of information on the web about iOS security. If you have any interest in that kind of thing at all, this is the book you need to read.

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Guilherme

Just awesome, what a great book.

Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2012

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This book is just great, it contains all the information necessary to develop iOS jailbreaks, but this book will not turn you into an i0n1c, musclenerd or pod2g overnight,of course a lot of knownledge will be necessary on the last chapters, but the first chapters are presented in a easy-to-understand language that almost anyone can perfectly understand, but of course, later on it will introduce you to ios basic jailbreaking tools, and of course it will get harder as you go through the whole book, but it's a really good challenge for anyone who wants to get introduced to the iOS jailbreaking world.

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Reilly

A good overview and source of inspiration

Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2012

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iOS Hacker's Handbook offers a good overview about the security mechanisms and possible strategies to overcome them.
The way current hacking techniques are being introduced, should enable less experienced programmers and enthusiast to get started and the more advanced reader will find a very well processed compendium (and more).

About the troll comments further down:
Some are obviously misinterpreting this book's intention. It's not about giving you a detailed tutorial on how to create a jailbreak, but to give a starting point, to introduce techniques needed and to motivate you to start learning and researching (btw. this belongs to security RESEARCH). Creating a jailbreak needs weeks and months of work, not to mention the vast experience and skills needed to pull of such a major task. One book can't accomplish that. So if you really want to become the next comex or pod2g: get off your backside, learn basics, read this book, read more materials, train your obtained skills and at the end of the road you might be able to develop your own exploits which will lead to a jailbreak.

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RichL

Great introduction

Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2012

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You won't find a better introduction to iOS security than this book.
The authors manage to cover a variety of different subjects in enough detail to give you a good grounding in the iOS security model as well as the current state of vulnerability discovery on the platform.

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MOSSY

Good but slight tear

Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2013

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It was torn a little at top and since I was giving it as a gift I was a little disappointed in that

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Mr. S. Buchanan

A Good insight into the IOS hacking techniques.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 20, 2012

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This book is a must for any person with responsibility for securing IOS within a corporate environment, it highlights in easy to understand language the techniques that have been historically used in hacking IOS devices, giving a good grounding in the prevention needed to prevent this.

F. Meißner

Guter Überblick/Einführung

Reviewed in Germany on May 31, 2012

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(Natürlich abhängig vom Vorwissen) in meinen Augen leider oberflächlicher als erwartet (Erwartungen aufgrund von Thema, Autoren und Kommentaren seitens Stefan Esser in Twitter vor Release des Buches).
Alles in allem aber ein guter Überblick(/Einführung) über die Architektur von iOS und den darin enthaltenen Sicherheitsaspekten.
Man sollte sich vor dem Kauf das Inhaltsverzeichnis ansehen (Wird unter anderem vom Verlag angeboten sowie bei "Blick ins Buch"), damit kann man gut grob abschätzen wie intensiv welche Themen behandelt werden.

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Mcnahum

Very good book!

Reviewed in France on June 7, 2012

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For anybody who is interested of iOS it's really a complete book!
I recommend it
The first chapter is a good summary and after all chapter go in detail.

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