Disassembling and patching iOS applications at assembly level

@article{Gupta2017DisassemblingAP,
  title={Disassembling and patching iOS applications at assembly level},
  author={Chetna Gupta and Arpita Jadhav Bhatt and Sangeeta Mittal},
  journal={2017 Tenth International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3)},
  year={2017},
  pages={1-6}
}
There are many mobile operating systems for different smartphones. iOS is one of them available exclusively on Apple devices. It offers various features such as GPS tracking, Siri, multi touch gestures, biometric authentication etc. The functionality of an iOS device can be expanded by installing third party applications, available from App store. Apple follows a mandatory code signing process to ensure that applications are developed by trusted enterprises/developers and no malware exists on… 
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