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1. MOBILE SECURITY

2. Introduction
 Mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablets,
typically need to support multiple security objectives:
1)Confidentiality
2)Integrity
3)availability

3. Targets for attackers
 Data
 Identity
 Availability
Attacks
Based on wi-fi
Based on network
Based on sms,mms
Based on vulnarabilities in software.

4. Sources to insecure phone
 Worms: A worm is a program that reproduces on
multiple computers across a network.
 Malware: A malware is a computer program that aims
to harm the system in which it resides.
 Viruses: virus is malicious software designed to spread
to other computers by inserting itself into legitimate
programs and running programs in parallel.

5. Malware
 Cabir
 Commwarrior
 Phage
 RedBrowser
 WinCE.PmCryptic
 CardTrap

6. Effect of malware

7. security mechanisms
 The threats prevented by the various measures are not
the same depending on the case. Considering the two
cases mentioned above:
1) one would protect the system from corruption by an
application.
2) The installation of a suspicious software would be
prevented.

8. Mechanism……
 Rootkit Detectors.
 Process isolation.
 File permissions.
 Memory Protection.
 Development through runtime environments.

9. Security software
 Antivirus and firewall
 Visual Notifications
 Turing test
 Biometric identification

10. Continued…….
 Resource monitoring in the smartphone
 Battery
 Memory usage
 Network traffic

11. Continued…..
 Services
 Network surveillance
 Spam filters
 Avoid heavily customized systems

12. Solutions…..
 Enable user authentication.
 Verify the authenticity of downloaded
applications.
 Install antimalware capability.
 Install a firewall.

13. Continued….
 Remotely disable lost or stolen devices.
 Enable encryption for data stored on device or
memory card.
 Enable whitelisting.
 Provide mobile device security training.

14. Continued……
 Perform risk assessments.
 Perform configuration control and management.

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