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The new React Native Approov Quickstart provides automated integration of Approov API threat protection for most React Native apps. Read Full Story

Even if you only have a vague interest in app security I’m sure the recent furore around Clubhouse hasn’t escaped your attention. There is significant buzz around this invite-only iOS app. Enabling live audio chat rooms between participants, it sets the expectation that these interactions are somewhat private and certainly not recorded.  With big celebrity names such as Elon Musk, Kanye West and Oprah Winfrey as users there is a significant demand for a coveted invite. Read Full Story

Man-in-the-Middle (MitM), or more correctly Person-in-the-Middle, is the technique of inserting yourself into API traffic to observe or manipulate requests and transactions as they pass by. In this article we’ll look at how it’s done and what you should do to prevent it, exploding a few misapprehensions on the way. Read Full Story

Rooting Android phones and jailbreaking Apple phones are generally considered to be bad things to do and strong indicators of evil intent. In this article we will explore this position a little deeper and dig into the topic. We’ll discover that the truth is much more nuanced than that and one size does indeed not fit all. Finally we will propose the methodology you should consider when setting your security policies. Read Full Story

Our friends at Rakuten have written a blog about their opinions of and experiences with the Approov dynamic pinning capability. You can read it here. It’s always nice to be able to point at independent material about Approov because, although we think very highly of it, we may be somewhat biased! Read Full Story

Photo by Evgeni Tcherkasski on Unsplash Our aim is to make the process of integrating Approov into your mobile app as simple as possible. Our Quickstart guides show you how to add Approov into your app, tailored to whatever framework or programming style you’ve already adopted. In this blog we are going to cover the options we have for iOS Native app development. Read Full Story

ShipFast and ShipRaider made a fresh appearance at the RSA Conference in late February 2020 in San Francisco. This time the focus was on API security for React Native Apps:   Read Full Story

This post includes a video of SKip Hovsmith's talk on preventing mobile app and API abuse at the 2019 AppSec California Conference.   Read Full Story

Enhance React Native’s networking API protection on Android and iOS without touching your Javascript code or manually editing the native code projects. The first edition of this article implemented TLS certificate pinning for React Native apps on Android. Since then, the react-native-cert-pinner package has been enhanced to support pinning on iOS devices, and this edition of the post walks through the previous example for iOS.  Read Full Story

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