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Damn Vulnerable Android Application by Security Compass - Lab 5 Basic Encryption

Lab 5 Basic Encryption

This post is about encryption flaw on android app for sensitive information. Here we will see the filesystem of device. Sometimes developer store the sensitive info on device that too without encryption.

To check for some sensitive info on filesystem we will use our favorite tool 'adb', give below command

adb shell

after that browse to base app and we gone in shared_prefs directory, we explored the preferences.xml so we found this

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