Windows Phone 8 Application Security Whitepaper Syscan 2014

MWR’s Alex Plaskett and Nick Walker recently presented “Navigating a Sea of Pwn? Windows Phone 8 AppSec” at the Syscan 2014 security conference.

Windows Phone 8 is slowly increasing its market share, more applications are being developed for the platform, often without any real security guidance on how to develop secure applications and what to watch out for.

The whitepaper highlights common developer mistakes which can introduce security weaknesses into Windows Phone 8 applications.

This whitepaper demonstrates a novel class of vulnerabilities specific to Windows Phone 8 applications, provide guidance on how to determine if your application is vulnerable and provide recommendations on how to avoid this problem.

Download the whitepaper here.