Google Play rolls out an "Independent security review" badge for apps

• owasp-mastg

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  The Mobile Application Security Testing Guide (MASTG) is a comprehensive manual for mobile app security testing and reverse engineering. It describes the technical processes for verifying the controls listed in the OWASP Mobile Application Security Verification Standard (MASVS).

  

https://mas.owasp.org/ :

> The OWASP Mobile Application Security (MAS) flagship project provides a security standard for mobile apps (OWASP MASVS) and a comprehensive testing guide (OWASP MASTG) that covers the processes, techniques, and tools used during a mobile app security test, as well as an exhaustive set of test cases

• owasp-mstg

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  The Mobile Security Testing Guide (MSTG) is a comprehensive manual for mobile app security development, testing and reverse engineering.

I found a more detailed explanation of it: https://github.com/julepka/owasp-mstg/blob/master/Document/0...

> Generally, you should provide compiled code with as little explanation as possible. Some metadata, such as debugging information, line numbers, and descriptive function or method names, make the binary or bytecode easier for the reverse engineer to understand, but these aren't needed in a release build and can therefore be safely omitted without impacting the app's functionality.

I'm not a big fan of the reasoning, as it's security through obscurity. Which is not the worst tradeoff, but these days it just makes public bug bounties (and other public auditing) end up being less of an interesting prospect for improving security.

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