How safe is your mobile app? Mobile app attacks and defense

Kireet Muppavaram, Meda Sreenivasa Rao, Kaavya Rekanar, R. Sarath Babu

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Abstract

Usage of mobile phones has increased over the years, all over the world. With the extensive usage of smartphones, it has been confirmed by that most of the smartphone users work in an Android platform as it is an open platform which can be used by anyone to develop applications or introduce malicious activities; Reports suggest that up to 85% of the mobile phones used are in Android platform (Portal, Statistics. Number of monthly active Facebook users worldwide as of 1st quarter 2015 (in millions), 2015) [1]. At the least, a smartphone user uses a minimum of 12 applications, which arises the question, “how safe is your mobile?”. This paper focuses on the said problem and provides an insight about some common types of attacks that use the vulnerability in applications and some defense methods and techniques that could be followed to prevent them.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Second International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Informatics - ICCII-2017
EditorsB. Padmaja Rani, V. Kamakshi Prasad, Joao Manuel Tavares, Vikrant Bhateja, K. Srujan Raju
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages199-207
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9789811082276
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event2nd International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Informatics, ICCII 2017 - Hyderabad, India
Duration: 25 Sep 201727 Sep 2017

Publication series

NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume712
ISSN (Print)2194-5357

Conference

Conference2nd International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Informatics, ICCII 2017
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityHyderabad
Period25/09/1727/09/17

Keywords

  • Android smartphones
  • Attacks
  • Defences
  • Vulnerabilites

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