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Security testing in Android networks : a practical case study

conference contribution
posted on 2013-01-01, 00:00 authored by R Hunt
Android is a new generation of an open operating system directed at mobile devices that are carried every day. The openness of this architecture is leading to new applications and opportunities including a host of multimedia services, new interfaces and browsers, multitasking including support for wireless local, personal and wide area networking services. Security with mobility and wireless connectivity thus becomes even more important with all these exciting developments. Vital security issues such as leakage of private information, file stealing and spambots abound in networks in practice and Android networks continue to be subject to these same families of vulnerabilities. This paper provides a demonstration of such vulnerabilities in spite of the best efforts of designers and implementers. In particular it describes examples of data leakage and file stealing (address books, contact lists, SMS messages, pictures) as well as demonstrating how Android devices can create spambots. © 2013 IEEE.

History

Pagination

1-6

Location

Singapore

Start date

2013-12-11

End date

2013-12-13

ISBN-13

9781479920846

Language

eng

Publication classification

E1.1 Full written paper - refereed, E Conference publication

Copyright notice

2013, IEEE

Title of proceedings

ICON 2013 : Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Networks

Event

IEEE International Conference on Networks (19th : 2013 : Singapore)

Publisher

IEEE

Place of publication

Piscataway, N.J.