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Featuring 17 Papers as of September 9, 2013
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SMS, iMessage and FaceTime security
George Khalil - September 9, 2013
With the increasing mass adoption of mobile smart devices, attackers are increasingly focusing on gaining access and visibility into the data stored and transmitted via mobile devices.
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Website Security for Mobile
Alan Ho - April 16, 2013
Smartphones and Tablets are very popular nowadays, according to the study from Canalys (2012) in 2011Q4, which shows that global shipment for smartphones has a growth of more than 62% and growth of around 275% for pads.
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Reverse Engineering Of Malware On Android
Vibha Manjunath - September 12, 2011
Smartphones have gained tremendous popularity over the last few years. In this growing market of smartphones, Android, an open source platform of Google has become one of the most popular Operating Systems. Android is mainly used in smartphones and tablets.
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Malicious Android Applications: Risks and Exploitation
Joany Boutet - December 22, 2010
Android is an open-source mobile operating system, based upon a modified version of the Linux kernel, initially developed by Android Inc., a firm purchased by Google in 2005. A Gartner study released on November 2010 outlined that Android has become the second-most popular OS in the world (Gartner, 11/2010). The growth of Android has exceeded their previous study, released last year, in which they had predicted that Android will be the No.2 worldwide mobile operating system in 2012 (The H, 08/10/2009). According to another Gartner study (Gartner, 08/2010)., there will be only a slight difference between Symbian and Android market share in 2014: 30.2% for Symbian against 29.6% for Android.
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Wireless Mobile Security
Erik Couture - December 3, 2010
Mobile Security: Current threats and emerging protective measures
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Security Policy for the use of handheld devices in corporate environments
Nicolas Guerin - June 24, 2008
The use of handheld devices is increasing in corporate environments, providing mobile services and constant connectivity to mobile workers. Due to the fact that handheld devices are recent and not yet properly managed, they present new threats to corporate assets. Handheld devices combine security challenges posed by laptops, removable storage (e.g. USB keys), and cameras.
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Auditing Nokia Communicator 9500 in Enterprise Context
Leonard Ong - May 17, 2005
Companies' confidential information can be stored in the device, and a compromise on the device will pose risks to companies. The paper aims to describe an audit on Nokia Communicator 9500 implementation in Enterprise context.
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Securing PDAs in the Health Care Environment
Sarah Blanton - October 31, 2003
This paper discusses the ways to secure PDAs, especially for use in the health care industry.
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The Dilemma of PDA Security: An Overview
Daniel Lyon - October 31, 2003
This paper examines the security vulnerabilities of PDAs and various tools to secure hand-held devices.
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Wireless Security: Blackberry by Research In Motion
Jeff Danielson - October 31, 2003
This paper presents an introduction to the Blackberry Wireless Email devices as well as suggestions to help Information Security Professionals minimize the risk of using such devices
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The PDA as a Threat Vector
Richard Price - October 31, 2003
This paper addresses the threat to information security posed by the PDA (including related devices such as smartphones).
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Handheld Security: A Layered Approach
Nelson Beach - October 31, 2003
This paper describes a four-layered approach to security for mobile computing with a PDA.
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Pocket PC - Secure or Unsecured?
Darrin Murriner - October 31, 2003
This paper examines some of the steps that can be taken to secure the information stored on PDAs.
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Security Vulnerabilities in the Palm OS version 3.x
Laura Thomas - October 31, 2003
This article will examine the security features standard with the Palm OS(R) version 3.x, their vulnerabilities, and some alternative security software which help remedy these vulnerabilities. The classic ideals of information security apply to a Palm device as well as to a network.
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PDAs in the Corporate Environment
Dave Croxton - October 31, 2003
This paper examines the security concerns of the PDA Operating Systems Palm and Windows CE ("Pocket PC").
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Securely Integrating iOS Devices into the Business Environment
Joshua Brower
iOS is the name of Apples mobile operating system. Previous to June 2010, it was known as the iPhone OS. Released in the summer of 2007, the first generation iPhone OS was a spectacular hit in the blackberry-dominated smartphone market.
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Security Implications of iOS
Kiel Wadner
In the last two years, smartphone market penetration has gone from 16% to 23% (Kellog, 2010).
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