About the Reviewers

Seyton Bradford is a mobile phone security expert and developer with expertise in iOS and Android. He has a long history of reversing engineering phones, OSes, apps, and filesystems to pen test, recover data, expose vulnerabilities, and break the encryptions.

He has developed mobile phone security tools and new techniques, presenting this research across the globe. He has also reviewed Android Security Cookbook, Packt Publishing and many other academic journals.

Rui Gonçalo is finishing his Masters' thesis at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, in the field of Android security. He is developing a new feature that aims to provide users with fine-grained control over Internet connections. His passion for mobile security arose from attending lectures on both cryptography and information systems security at the same university, and from several events held by the most important companies of the same field in Portugal. He was also a technical reviewer of the recently launched book Android Security Cookbook, Packt Publishing.

Glauco Márdano is 23 years old, lives in Brazil, and has a degree in Systems Analysis. He worked for 2 years as a Java web programmer, and has been studying for game development. He has also worked on books such as jMonkeyEngine 3.0 Beginner's Guide, Packt Publishing, and Augmented Reality for Android Applications, Packt Publishing.

Elad Shapira is a part of the AVG Mobile team and is working as a mobile security researcher. He specializes in Android app coding, penetration tests, and mobile device risk assessment.

As a mobile security researcher, Elad is responsible for analyzing malware in depth, creating and updating malware signatures, managing vulnerabilities for mobile threats, coding multipurpose prototypes for mobile devices (PoC), and writing security-related web posts along with maintaining connections and relationships with the mobile device security community around the world.

Prior to joining AVG, Elad worked for the Israeli government as an Information Security Consultant.

Elad holds a BSc degree in Computer Science from Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Israel, and is a keynote speaker at Israeli security conferences and events held in other countries. He also helps to organize a digital survivor competition, which is held in Israel.