NDLI: A study of SSL Proxy attacks on Android and iOS mobile applications

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Hubbard, J. Weimer, K. Yu Chen
Copyright Year	2014
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Binghamton Univ., Binghamton, NY, USA (Hubbard, J.; Weimer, K.; Yu Chen)
Abstract	According to recent articles in popular technology websites, some mobile applications function in an insecure manner when presented with untrusted SSL certificates. These non-browser based applications seem to, in the absence of a standard way of alerting a user of an SSL error, accept any certificate presented to it. This paper intends to research these claims and show whether or not an invisible proxy based SSL attack can indeed steal user's credentials from mobile applications, and which types applications are most likely to be vulnerable to this attack vector. To ensure coverage of the most popular platforms, applications on both Android 4.2 and iOS 6 are tested. The results of our study showed that stealing credentials is indeed possible using invisible proxy man in the middle attacks.
Sponsorship	IEEE Commun. Soc.
Starting Page	86
Ending Page	91
File Size	1453542
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
e-ISBN	9781479923557
DOI	10.1109/CCNC.2014.6866553
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-01-10
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Androids Humanoid robots Security Mobile communication Servers Smart phones iOS Mobile Devices SSL TLS Proxy Man-in-the-middle Android
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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