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SmartSiren: Virus Detection and Alert for Smartphones

Category: Security, Networking and Communications

Tags: bluetooth, smartphone, virus, windows mobile, sms, computing, applications

Overview Smartphones have recently become increasingly popular because they provide all-in-one" convenience by integrating traditional mobile phones with handheld computing devices. However, the flexibility of running third-party softwares also leaves the smartphones open to malicious viruses. In fact, hundreds of smartphone viruses have emerged, which can quickly spread through various means such as SMS/MMS, Bluetooth and traditional IP-based applications. The implementations of two proof-of-concept viruses on Windows Mobile have confirmed the vulnerability of this popular smartphone platform. This paper presents SmartSiren, a collaborative virus detection and alert system for smartphones. In order to detect viruses, SmartSiren collects the communication activity information from the smartphones, and performs joint analysis to detect both single-device and system-wide abnormal behaviors.

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Publisher: University of California
File Format: PDF
Date Published: May 29, 2007
Format: White Papers
Topics: Mobile - Wireless Communications, Security Tools

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