Mobile Systems Security

Abstract

Mobile devices threats are all over and come in many ways. Nowadays the number of mobile devices is extremely high, and we use them to cover many personal needs like ordering food, buying plane tickets, controlling our home from distance (using IoT devices) and so on. But all of this comes with a cost and that cost is that we have to give personal data to some devices which lead to threats. This paper is an overview of what we know so far about threats which affects the mobile devices at system and physical level, how they work and their scope. A classification of them is made so we can define them better in order to find ways for preventing and why not extinguish so we can be safer. As method of research was used a qualitative one by documenting from articles related to this theme, reports realized by companies which operates in this field and other resources.

Smartphones and IoT Security

“…A vulnerable Wi-Fi connection is an unencrypted one, which become a "secure" way to leak data. The point here is that exists many ways through which attackers can get from devices data like credit card details, transactions, different accounts, call logs and many others without the user's permission in order to harm him or to use that data for personal benefits [10]. At the application level can be a more vulnerabilities like incorrect permission settings, potential functionalities that can access user personal resources and many others [9].…”

“…Parts of this research have been published in the Proceedings of the 18 th International Conference on Informatics in Economy, IE 2019 [10].…”