It might be interesting for several reasons to monitor the network traffic of Android devices to watch the network behavior of some apps. This article describes how to monitor network traffic running the Android AVD Emulator on Linux.
Tag: Android
Nov 20
Combining ownCloud and syncthing
OwnCloud is a nice cloud solution which is based on free software. It allows companies and users to run their own cloud services thereby not loosing the control on their data. Every day this gets more and more important and you loose control if you use commercial cloud services such as Google, Microsoft, or Amazon. …
Sep 05
OnionCat on Android
Dear folks! I just wrote an article about OnionCat on Android. There is a readily compiled ARM binary found at cypherpunk.at/ocat/download/Android. Is there somebody out there willing to write an Android front-end app for OnionCat?
Feb 13
How to Move App Data of TextSecure to New Android Device
This Howto explains how to move application data of Android apps to a new mobile device. It is explained with TextSecure as an example but should work with any other app as well. People who are paranoid in respect to security and those trying to learn something about security should read the Section »Security Considerations« …
May 24
Accounts Disappear After Reboot
Have you ever had or do you currently have the problem that some of your accounts disappeared after a reboot of your Android phone? If yes then probably here is the solution. A few days ago I “played” a little bit with my Android phone. The next day I recognized that several of my accounts …
May 21
Applied Social Engineering
On our university, I am running a Plog — this is the paper version of a Blog 😉 (see image on the right side). I put various articles there, mainly those which I post here but also other interesting stuff which I find on the internet. While waiting for the next course, students may read …
Nov 05
Android App Hacking — Part 2
I’m pretty sure now that the quality of software does not increase over decades. You might also read this posting about hacking and cracking of software. I was looking for an application which allows to synchronize my calendar with an ICS source and I found this Android app.1 It seems to provide all I need …
Nov 01
Simple Android App Hacking
Software hacking has a long history and it was shown in past that – in my opinion – the quality of software in general didn’t get better over decades. This is probably not true for specific projects such as e.g. the OpenBSD kernel which is continuously improved and reviewed because it is open source and …
Sep 20
Android won’t connect to Wifi
Since Android has a Linux-based kernel, the Wifi interface is managed by the wpa_supplicant as on most Unix-based systems. My personal experience during the last years of using wpa_supplicant is that there are many times troubles with it which are hard to debug and even sometimes not reproducable. On the other hand it often works …
Sep 19
Android, CyanogenMod, and OpenVPN
Although I followed the instructions about how to configure OpenVPN with Cyanogen I failed at first because the certificate “installation” is not what I call user-friendly (Why not simply copy the certificate file to the right location?). OpenVPN is a very secure and feature-rich OpenSource VPN solution. If you Google for it you will find …
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