About the Author

Swaroop Yermalkar is a leading security researcher and technology evangelist. He is one of the top mobile security researchers worldwide, working with Synack Inc.

He has worked as domain consultant in the Security Practice Group at Persistent Systems Ltd, India, where he was responsible for the security research and assessment of web, network, Android and iOS applications.

He also gives talks and trainings on wireless and mobile app pentesting at various security conferences such as GroundZero, c0c0n, 0x90, DEFCON Lucknow, and GNUnify.

He is acknowledged by Microsoft, Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Dropbox, Evernote, Simple bank App, iFixit, and many more for reporting high severity security issues in their mobile apps.

He is an active member of null, an open security community in India, and a contributor to the regular meet-up and Humla sessions at the Pune Chapter.

He holds various information security certifications, such as SLAE, SMFE, SWSE, CEH, and CHFI. He has written various articles for ClubHACK magazine and also authored a book, An Ethical Guide to Wi-Fi Hacking and Security.

He has organized many eminent programs and was the event head of Hackathon—a national-level hacking competition. He had also worked with the Cyber Crime Cell, Pune, Maharashtra Police in programs such as Cyber Safe Pune. He can be contacted at @swaroopsy on Twitter.

Although the cover of this book only has my name on it, this book would certainly not have been possible without the continuous support by some wonderful people in this world. First of all, a great thanks to the entire team at Packt Publishing, especially, Veena, Aaron, and Arshiya for helping me with the book in every way possible.

I would also like to thank my parents and brother, Swapnil, for the continuous support and encouragement.

My special thanks goes to Ken van Wyk for giving his precious time to review the book and taking it to next level.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank my friends, Ajay Negi and Atul Shedage to motivate me towards bug bounty programs.

Finally, I would like to thank all of the readers for picking this book, it will be great learning and fun while reading of this book.