{"id":4170,"date":"2016-08-12T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T03:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qadit.com\/blog\/?p=4170"},"modified":"2016-08-12T09:00:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T03:30:01","slug":"android-tamer-virtual-platform-for-android-security-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/android-tamer-virtual-platform-for-android-security-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Android Tamer: Virtual platform for Android security professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/2aU6wYf\" target=\"_blank\">Android Tamer<\/a> is a free and open source Swiss army knife type of tool for Android security.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/2aW5rfr\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Android Tamer\" title=\"Android Tamer\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The recently released version 4 moves towards Debian package compatibility. Users are able to obtain or use Android Tamer in multiple formats:<\/p>\n<p>1. Download the OVA directly and use it.<br \/>\n2. Configure Debian 8 machines to use tools from Android Tamer repositories.<br \/>\n3. A Vagrant Image can be used to build Android Tamer and see the process transparently.<\/p>\n<p>More options such as ISO and Docker builds are in the works and should be available soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs with any other open source project, I\u2019m faced with multiple challenges. The highly volatile nature of the upstream projects (frequent updates, no release tags, sudden project abandonment), and the fact that each developer has his\/her own idea on how to run a tool, are the main reasons we have more than 60 open bugs related to adding new tools to Android Tamer,\u201d Anant Shrivastava, Leader at Android Tamer, told Help Net Security.<\/p>\n<p>The project is looking for contributors in different areas, including writing documentation and testing and bug reporting, to take everything to the next level.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/2aU6jEt\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Android Tamer\" title=\"Android Tamer package manager\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Future plans<\/h3>\n<p>The aim of the project is to become a one-stop location for anything related to Android security. The development team is working on the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Android Tamer VM: Standard Linux distribution customized for Android security<\/li>\n<li>Tools repository: A Debian (and Red Hat in the future) compatible repository of Android security tools<\/li>\n<li>Custom Android emulator: specifically customized to help with Android security<\/li>\n<li>Android Play Store equivalent for offensive and defensive software that are not available on Google Play.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>If you\u2019re at <a href=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/2ah3qea\">Black Hat USA 2016<\/a> in Las Vegas this week, you can see the tool in action at the <a href=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/2alPCO3\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/2ah3qea\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/2ag8yf8\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Black Hat USA 2016\" title=\"Black Hat USA 2016\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"hnst-tag-specific-content\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>via https:\/\/ift.tt\/2b4sy6P<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android Tamer is a free and open source Swiss army knife type of tool for Android security. The recently released version 4 moves towards Debian package compatibility. Users are able to obtain or use Android Tamer in multiple formats: 1. Download the OVA directly and use it. 2. Configure Debian 8 machines to use tools &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/android-tamer-virtual-platform-for-android-security-professionals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Android Tamer: Virtual platform for Android security professionals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-itsec"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9AH7Q-15g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4171,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions\/4171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}