Quantifying smartphone vulnerabilities

Author

Kataria, Ankur ; Anjali, Tricha ; Venkat, Raghu

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. & Eng. Dept., LNM Inst. of Inf. Technol., Jaipur, India

fYear

2014

fDate

20-21 Feb. 2014

Firstpage

645

Lastpage

649

Abstract

Nowadays, smartphones are an integral part of our lives. They provide a wide variety of functionality through their applications (apps), whether it´s the latest news, social connectivity, market updates or picture editing and many more similar things. People rely on their smartphones for all these small tasks. These applications often have sensitive data/information about the users. As a result, smartphones are hot target for the hackers these days. Due to this, the number of vulnerabilities in smartphones is on a rise too. As soon as a new version of a smartphone operating system is launched, hackers look to exploit that and new vulnerabilities are discovered. In this paper we analyze the various versions of Google´s Android and Apple´s iOS operating systems and the vulnerabilities present in them.

Keywords

Android (operating system); mobile computing; security of data; smart phones; telecommunication security; Apple iOS operating system; Google Android operating system; market updates; picture editing; smartphone operating system; smartphone security; smartphone vulnerability quantification; social connectivity; Computer hacking; Ice; Mobile communication; Operating systems; Smart phones; Android vulnerabilities and iOS vulnerabilities; Mobile vulnerabilities; Smartphone Vulnerabilities; Smartphone security; Smartphones;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Noida

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2865-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPIN.2014.6777033

Filename

6777033