👋 Hi and welcome to the fourth post in this series where we deep-dive into Android Security (Part 1, 2 and 3). This series focuses on the Top 10 Mobile security threats as determined by The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Foundation, the leading application security community in our…

What do a 30-year-old web browser, a secret codename and the ASOS Android app all have in common? This might sound like a trick question, but recently a small handful of our ASOS Android users experienced a bug that linked all three of these seemingly unconnected things together 🤯 At…

Background Note: If you are not interested in the personal story surrounding this blog and wish to skip to the juicy bit (i.e. What’s New), please feel free! However, I do think this is too surreal not to tell 😂 Today (9th Nov 2022) was probably the most bizarre day in…

👋 Hi and welcome to the third post in this series where we deep-dive into Android Security. This series focuses on the Top 10 Mobile security threats as determined by The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Foundation, the leading application security community in our field. Before checking this post…

👋 Hi and welcome to the second post in this series where we deep-dive into Android Security. This series focuses on the Top 10 Mobile security threats as determined by The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Foundation, the leading application security community in our field. Before checking this post…

👋 Hi and welcome to a new series of blog posts in which we shall deep-dive into Android Security. This series will primarily focus on the Top 10 Mobile security threats as determined by The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Foundation, the leading application security community in our field. …

This ‘day in the life of’ series gives you an insight into what a typical day looks like for our people in Tech at ASOS (hint: there isn’t one) and how they started their careers. Hopefully, you take something inspirational away from it. This one’s about Ed George, a Senior…

Over the last few weeks and in part thanks to my new fascination with Android app security, I have recently found myself heavily invested in cyber security content online. Youtuber’s such as John Hammond and LiveOverflow provide hundreds of hours of free content, teaching the average person (as well as…

Initially released as an alpha during early May 2021, Jetpack’s App Authenticator library is an exciting addition to the ever growing list of security libraries coming from Android’s Jetpack team. But what is its purpose? In the libraries own words it states the following: AppAuthenticator is a new library aimed…