Title :
Building Security into Off-the-Shelf Smartphones
Author :
Stavrou, Angelos ; Voas, Jeffrey ; Karygiannis, Tom ; Quirolgico, Steve
Author_Institution :
George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA, USA
Abstract :
Quantifying mobile application functionality and enforcing a finer-grained permission model would identify and thus thwart a wide range of malware.
Keywords :
invasive software; mobile computing; smart phones; finer-grained permission model; malware; mobile application; off-the-shelf smart phone; security building; Androids; Computer security; Malware; Mobile communication; NIST; Smart phones; application testing; mobile computing; security;