Prateek Gianchandani

Prateek Gianchandani, a recent IIT graduate, has interests in the field of Penetration Testing, Web Application Security and Intrusion Detection. He is currently a researcher for InfoSec Institute. In the past he has worked for security-based startups.

You can contact him at prateek.searchingeye@gmail.com and on twitter @prateekg147 or you can visit his personal website at highaltitudehacks.com

Articles from Prateek Gianchandani

IOS Application Security Part 9 - Analyzing Security of IOS Applications using Snoop-it

July 22, 2013

In some of the previous articles, we have looked at how we can dump class information of IOS apps using class-dump-z, hook into the runtime using Cycript and

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IOS Application Security Part 8 - Method Swizzling using Cycript

July 11, 2013

In the previous article, we looked at how we can install custom apps on our device without a developer certificate. In this article, we will look at how we c

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IOS Application Security Part 7 - Installing and Running Custom Applications on Device without a registered developer account

July 8, 2013

Usually, to test apps on a device, you need to be a registered developer which costs about $99/year. For people who want to learn IOS Application security, i

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IOS Application Security Part 6 - New Security Features in IOS 7

July 2, 2013

As we all know, Apple recently introducted its new version of IOS at WWDC 2013 with a completely redesinged User Interface. If you haven't seen it yet, check

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IOS Application security Part 5 - Advanced Runtime analysis and manipulation using Cycript (Yahoo Weather App)

June 17, 2013

Introduction In the previous article, we learnt how to setup Cycript on your idevice, hook into a running process and obtain information about its propertie

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iOS Application Security Part 4 – Runtime Analysis Using Cycript (Yahoo Weather App)

June 10, 2013

Introduction In the previous article, we learnt about the runtime capabilities of an IOS App written in Objective-C which uses the Cocoa framework. In this

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IOS Application security Part 3 - Understanding the Objective-C Runtime

June 3, 2013

Introduction Almost all the native IOS applications are written in Objective-C. All these apps use Cocoa, which is a library that sits on top on Objc-C and

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IOS Application security Part 2 - Getting class information of IOS apps

May 7, 2013

Introduction Have you ever checked out an IOS app and thought it was cool, and wondered if you could find some information about the source code of the app,

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IOS application security Part 1 - Setting up a mobile pentesting platform

April 26, 2013

In this article series, we will be learning about the tools and techniques required to perform penetration testing and Vulnerability assessment on IOS Applic

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Backtrack 5 R3 Walkthrough, Part 4

November 12, 2012

DHCPig DHCPig is a very nice and handy little tool used to carry out an advanced DHCP exhaustion attack. It does this by grabbing all the IP addresses in it

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Backtrack 5 R3 Walkthrough - Part 3

November 6, 2012

In this article we will we look at some of the other new tools that were added into Backtrack 5 with the release of its latest version R3. Wifite [pkad

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Installing and Running the Honeypot

September 18, 2012

This article is in continuation of Part 1 of the series on Ghost USB Honeypot. Malware threats have become very common these days and hence the need of honey

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