Android Root Detection Techniques

MDM products like AirWatch enforce Android policies, but restrictions aren't hard to bypass. The post evades AirWatch root detection on a rooted Nexus 4 so the device stays rooted and compliant.

Argues companies lack formal mobile application security testing despite mobile being a prime attack target; MDM alone won't stop app backdoors, cleartext credential storage, or data leakage.

As smartphones and tablets flood the workplace, Ryan Wakeham lists key controls: strong policy, user education, encryption, remote wipe, restricted connectivity, app assessment, and MDM.

Bishop Fox shows how to bypass .NET MAUI's platform packaging to extract readable C# assemblies from Android and iOS apps, then use that shared-assembly insight to uncover critical vulnerability patterns in common business logic.

Project Zero researched the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge and reported 11 high-impact security issues, discussing motivations, methodology and lessons learned from the device research.

Cody Wass recounts discovering an XXE vulnerability in a service behind IBM's MaaS360 MDM platform, with a primer on external XML entities and how parser abuse enables file reads and SSRF.