MoMo Detroit - Sept. 10th - Mobile Security

MoMo Detroit – Sept. 10th – Mobile Security

Posted on: August 30, 2012 – Filed under: Detroit

Mobile Monday Detroit

In today’s mobile technology-oriented world, consumers are using their mobile devices to share more and more personal information on a daily basis that they assume is protected; many businesses are doing the same.

Unfortunately, out of 100 APKs downloaded, only one is properly obfuscated. That means only 1% of Android applications have protected source code, and reverse engineering the original source code on both Android and Windows Mobile is relatively simple. While iPhone and Blackberry are more secure, they too are at risk.

99% of Android apps are exposed to security threats from hackers
In many cases, apps are connected to a back-end database which may include credit card numbers, employee information such as social security numbers, and proprietary source code – all at risk.

Not properly protecting this information could be very costly for an organization, as well as leading to potential legal ramifications.

In this month’s Mobile Monday Detroit, we present two Michigan-based experts to discuss the importance of properly securing mobile apps and the best way to achieve it.

Our presenters include:

Godfrey Nolan, Founder/President of RIIS, Author of “Decompiling Android”

who will be discussing ways developers can go about securing their mobile apps, whether on iPhone, Android, Windows or Blackberry. He’ll review tools and techniques that hackers use to attack mobile apps, as well as steps that developers can take to protect against these attacks.

Jon Oberheide, Co-founder/CTO of Duo Security

Presentation details available soon.

REGISTER FOR OUR DOOR PRIZE!

Attendees at this month’s event can register to win a copy of Godfrey Nolan’s book, Decompiling Android which looks at the reason why Android apps can be decompiled to recover their source code, what that means to Android developers, and how code can be protected from prying eyes. The book includes:

an in-depth examination of the Java and Android class file structures

tools and techniques for decompiling Android apps

tools and techniques for protecting Android apps

OUR SPEAKERS

Godfrey Nolan is Founder and President of RIIS, an IT services firm in the Metro Detroit area specializing in mobile development. He is also the author of “Decompiling Java” (Apress, 2004) and “Decompiling Android” (Apress, 2012) and has written numerous articles for magazines and newspapers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland. Nolan has had a healthy obsession with reverse engineering bytecode since he wrote Decompile Once, Run Anywhere which first appeared in Web Techniques in September 1997. Godfrey has spoken at AnDevCon, JavaOne, ASP-Connections, VSLive, Codemash, Code PaLOUsa, 1DevDay, and many local Java and .NET user groups on a wide range of topics such as continuous integration, executable requirements and mobile security.

Godfrey has a B.E. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from University College Dublin, as well as a Master of Science Degree in Distributed Computing from the University of the West of England.

Jon Oberheide is Co-founder and CTO of Duo Security. More details about Jon available soon.

LOCATION:

Once again Mobile Monday Detroit will take place at Compuware headquarters in downtown Detroit, and as always, attendance is FREE, but advance registration is required for security purposes. Free parking is available (with ticket validation at sign-in) in Compuware’s parking deck directly behind the headquarters building, and refreshments will be served.

SPONSORSHIP:

Mobile Monday Detroit is sponsored by Mobile Monday Michigan, Compuware and the Mobile Technology Association of Michigan.

Detroit, MI 48226 – USA

Monday, September 10 at 5:30 PM

Attending: 44

Details: http://www.meetup.com/Mobile-Monday-Detroit/events/76389872/