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Analysis of Threats and Countermeasures on Mobile Smartphone

  • Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information
  • Abbr : JKSCI
  • 2011, 16(2), pp.153-164
  • Publisher : The Korean Society Of Computer And Information
  • Research Area : Engineering > Computer Science

전웅렬 1 김지연 1 Youngsook Lee 2 WON, DONGHO 1

1성균관대학교
2호원대학교

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ABSTRACT

Smartphone is a mobile device which can perform better than feature phone. Recently, growth in demand for advanced mobile devices boasting powerful performance, market share of smartphone is increasing rapidly in mobile device market, for example, iphone and android phone. Smartphone can provide many functionalities, e-mail, scheduler, word-processing, 3D-game, and etc, based on its powerful performance. Thus, various secret information is integrated in smartphone. To provide service, sometimes, smartphone transmits informations to outside via wireless network. Because smartphone is a mobile device, user can lose his/her smartphone, easily, and losing smartphone can cause serious security threats, because of integrated information in smartphone. Also data which is transmitted in wireless network can be protected for privacy. Thus, in present, it is very important to keep secure smartphone. In this paper, we analyze threats and vulnerabilities of smartphone based on its environments and describe countermeasures against threats and vulnerabilities.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.