Potential for Data Loss from Security Protected Smartphones

Smartphones have been widely accepted by mass market users and enterprise users. However, the threats related to Smartphones have emerged. Smartphones carry substantial amounts of sensitive data. There have been successful attacks in the wild on jail broken phones. Therefore, smartphones need to be treated like a computer and have to be secured from all types of attacks. There is proof of concept attacks on Apple iOS and Google Android. This project aims to analyze some of the attacks on Smartphones and find possible solutions in order to defend the attacks. Thereby, this project is based on a proof of concept malware for testing antivirus software.