Smartphone: Security and privacy protection

Abstract

Current smartphone operating systems are capable of running applications written by third party developers. And this capability has raised concerns about the threat that smartphones pose to the public privacy and security. Recently, it is widespread for the malwares to collect sensitive information owned by third-party applications as well as to escalate its privilege to the system level. Hence the smartphone OS has been developed with a greater emphasis on security and privacy protection. In this paper, under the condition that the rapid development usage of Android platform, we purpose to introduce the permission mechanism, which requires developers to declare what sensitive resources their applications would use, has users agree with this request when they install the application and constrains the application to the requested resources during runtime. In the end we give some tips for users to protect sensitive information and user privacy. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.