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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Mobile Malware"”.
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High performance, scalable, and expressive modeling environment to study mobile malware in large dynamic networks
… blurring the distinction between today's PCs and mobile phones. With expected smart phones sales to skyrocket, lack of awareness regarding securing them, and access to personal and proprietary information, has resulted in the recent surge of mobile malware. In addition to using traditional …
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An Assessment of Static and Dynamic malware analysis techniques for the android platform
… has fostered an increasing number of mobile malware attacks. The purpose of the research was to answer the following research questions: 1. What are the existing methods for analysing mobile malware? 2. How can methods for analysing mobile malware be evaluated? 3. What would comprise a …
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Learning-based Cyber Security Analysis and Binary Customization for Security
This thesis presents machine-learning based malware detection and post-detection rewriting techniques for mobile and web security problems. In mobile malware detection, we focus on detecting repackaged mobile malware. We design and demonstrate an Android repackaged malware detection technique based …
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On several problems regarding the application of opportunistic proximate links in smartphone networks
… preventing the distribution of unwanted content (mobile malware) over opportunistic proximate links and the supplementary problem of detecting mobile malware. Chapter 5 considers a probabilistic behavioral malware detection framework for delay-tolerant smartphone networks that are connected by …
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On Several Problems Regarding the Application of Opportunistic Proximate Links in Smartphone Networks
… preventing the distribution of unwanted content (mobile malware) over opportunistic proximate links and the supplementary problem of detecting mobile malware. Chapter 5 considers a probabilistic behavioral malware detection framework for delay-tolerant smartphone networks that are connected by …
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Android behind the scenes: revealing hidden malware with AndroMEDA
… users are installing across a variety of mobile platforms. The mobile devices average users own generally have inbuilt hardware interfaces capable of gathering different types of rich information including temperature, accelerometer, as well as personal identifiable information such as …
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Adversarial-resilience assurance for mobile security systems
As mobile phones become an increasingly critical part of our world, ensuring the security and privacy of mobile applications (in short as apps) becomes increasingly important. For too long, researchers have often tackled security in an attack-driven, ad hoc, and reactionary manner with large manual …
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Transparent and Precise Malware Analysis Using Virtualization: From Theory to Practice
… analysis is an important technique used in malware analysis and is complementary to static analysis. Thus far, virtualization has been widely adopted for building fine-grained dynamic analysis tools and this trend is expected to continue. Unlike User/Kernel space malware analysis platforms …
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Using Unrestricted Mobile Sensors to Infer Tapped and Traced User Inputs
<p>As of January 2014, 58% of Americans over the age of 18 own a smart phone. Of these smart phones, Android devices provide some security by requiring that third-party application developers declare to users which components and features their applications will access. However, many of the …