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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Mobile Security"”.
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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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Developing a next-generation Mobile Security solution for Android
… of threats. As a result, we present VirIT Mobile Security, a mobile security solution specifically designed and developed to counter Android malware. VirIT Mobile Security has been designed and developed in collaboration with and commercialised by TG Soft, an Italian antivirus firm. In …
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Mobile security and smart systems: multi-modal biometric authentication on mobile devices
With increased use of mobile phones that support mobile commerce, there is a need to examine the authentication of users. The password-based authentication techniques are not reliable with many passwords being too simple. A biometric authentication system is becoming more commonplace and is widely …
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Strengthening embedded system security with PUF enhanced cryptographic engines
Mobile security is a vast research world with an ever-changing landscape. Researchers develop security solution one day just to see them overcome a week later. Protocols and specifications are generated that attempt to create order out of the chaos and provide a clear roadmap to the future of …
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Static Analysis of Android Secure Application Development Process with FindSecurityBugs
<p>Mobile devices have been growing more and more powerful in recent decades, evolving from a simple device for SMS messages and phone calls to a smart device that can install third party apps. People are becoming more heavily reliant on their mobile devices. Due to this increase in usage, security …
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Exploring undergraduate interactions with mobile privacy and security
… and possibly vulnerable in terms of privacy and security. My focus was to characterise how this generation interacted with mobile privacy and security. We provide evidence from a cohort of South African students, using this to discuss areas in which they need to be protected. We employed a …
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A Comparison of the Usability of Security Mechanisms Provided by iOS and Android
<p>The Open Web Application Security Project identifies that the number one vulnerability in mobile applications is the misuse of platform-provided security mechanisms. This means that platforms like iOS and Android, which now account for 99.8\% of the mobile phone market, are providing mechanisms …
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Continuous authentication on android mobile devices
… passwords and PINs, secure access to an Android mobile device only at login, leaving active sessions vulnerable to unauthorised access. With over 3.9 billion Android mobile users worldwide and the widespread use of ultra-short messages in applications like WhatsApp, Telegram, and email, this …
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Integrating TrustZone Protection with Communication Paths for Mobile Operating System
… activities through their smartphones, including mobile payment and financial transaction. Therefore, users’ sensitive data processed by smartphones will be at risk if underlying mobile OSes are compromised. A technology called Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) has been introduced to protect …
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Security threats to Android apps
… smartphone users are increasingly relying on the mobile applications (app for short) to store and handle private information. The fluidity of mobile apps and mobile app markets has complicated mobile app security. Many new threats emerged are either because of the deficiency of mobile app …
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Learning-based Cyber Security Analysis and Binary Customization for Security
… 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 on code heterogeneity analysis. In post-detection …
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User-Intention Based Program Analysis for Android Security
The number of mobile applications (i.e., apps) is rapidly growing, as the mobile computing becomes an integral part of the modern user experience. Malicious apps have infiltrated open marketplaces for mobile platforms. These malicious apps can exfiltrate user's private data, abuse of system …
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Practical least privilege for cross-origin interactions on mobile operating systems
Mobile operating systems (i.e., mobile platforms) favor flexibility and re-usability as design principles and provide mobile applications with channels for establishing cross-origin interactions in an effort to realize these principles. Under this cross-origin scheme, applications accomplish tasks …
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SYSTEMATIC DISCOVERY OF ANDROID CUSTOMIZATION HAZARDS
… customization process could result in serious security problems. This dissertation performs a systematic investigation of Android customization’ inconsistencies with regards to security aspects at various Android layers.</p> <p>It brings to light new vulnerabilities, never investigated before, …
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Mining Security Risks from Massive Datasets
Cyber security risk has been a problem ever since the appearance of telecommunication and electronic computers. In the recent 30 years, researchers have developed various tools to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data and programs. However, new challenges are emerging as …
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Data-driven assistance for user decision making on mobile devices
Mobile devices are ubiquitous. As of 2019, two-thirds of the world population own a mobile phone. Mobile devices are indispensable for supporting billions of users' information access activities such as searching, browsing news, and shopping. Among those activities, users may often need to make …
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Android at risk: current threats stemming from unprotected local and external resources
… ones were added to meet the requirements of a mobile multi-purpose platform. Moreover, such a platform compels the in- troduction of external resources which can be used in tandem with a variety of sensors (e.g Bluetooth and NFC) that the device is equipped with. This thesis demonstrates the …
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Using Unrestricted Mobile Sensors to Infer Tapped and Traced User Inputs
… 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 real-time environmental sensors on devices are exempt from this requirement. We …
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Building abstractions for fast, secure, reliable computer systems
… society and everyday lives. Their performance, security and reliability are of critical importance. Real-world computer systems, however, occasionally suffer from performance degradation, security exploits, and poor reliability, because of the lack of efficient automatic analyses. This …
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The effects of unauthorised software modifications on smartphone users and developers
… apps, these apps pose risks to user privacy and security. Modded apps are significantly riskier than their official versions: modded Android and iOS apps are 10 and 33 times more likely to be malicious, respectively. We survey modded app market operators and 717 app developers affected by modded …