Potential for Data Loss from Security Protected Smartphones: Investigate how to use protective security measures from the PC world to secure Smartphon (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783656437895)

Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Computer Science - IT-Security, grade: 75, Royal Holloway, University of London, course: M.Sc. Information Security, language: English, abstract: Smartphones have been widely accepted by mass market users and enterprise users. However, the threats related to Smartphones have also emerged. Smartphones carry substantial amount of sensitive data. There have been successful attacks in the wild on jail broken phones. Smartphones needs to be treated like a computer and has to be secured from all type of attacks. There are proof of concept attacks on Apple iOS and Google Android. This project aims to analyse some attacks on Smartphones and possible solutions to defend the attacks. This project also uses a proof of concept malware for testing antivirus software.

Author: Vikas Rajole
ISBN-10: 3656437890
ISBN-13: 9783656437895
Publisher: Grin Verlag
Language: English
Published: 06/12/2013
Pages: 60
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.14d