Potential for Data Loss from Security Protected Smartphones : Investigate how to use protective security measures from the PC world to secure Smartphones

Vikas Rajole

ISBN 10: 3656437890 / ISBN 13: 9783656437895

Published by GRIN Verlag, 2013

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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 substantialamount 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 toanalyse some attacks on Smartphones and possible solutions to defend the attacks. This projectalso uses a proof of concept malware for testing antivirus software.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Potential for Data Loss from Security Protected Smartphones : Investigate how to use protective security measures from the PC world to secure Smartphones
• Publisher: GRIN Verlag
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3656437890
• ISBN 13: 9783656437895
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 210W x 148H x 5D millimeters 210 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 5 millimeters depth
• Weight: 101 grams

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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.