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Security in Mobile Computing: Attack Vectors, Solutions, and Challenges

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With the growth of the mobile industry, a smart phone has the ability to store large amounts of valuable data such as personal and bank information, the users’ location, call logs and more. Thus, the security of data in the mobile world has become an important issue. The main objective of this survey paper is to review the state-of-the-art technologies for the security of mobile computing. It covers the modern mobile operating systems that are being widely used today. It also identifies the various types of attack vectors particularly designed to infect mobile devices and highlights the available security solution to counter each type of attack. Finally, it briefly discusses the outstanding limitations and challenges in the mobile computing world.

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    Sara Alwahedi, Mariam Al Ali, Fatimah Ishowo-Oloko, Wei Lee Woon & Zeyar Aung

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  2. New York University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Yasir Zaki

  3. Cork Institute of Technology , Cork, Ireland

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Alwahedi, S., Al Ali, M., Ishowo-Oloko, F., Woon, W.L., Aung, Z. (2017). Security in Mobile Computing: Attack Vectors, Solutions, and Challenges. In: Agüero, R., Zaki, Y., Wenning, BL., Förster, A., Timm-Giel, A. (eds) Mobile Networks and Management. MONAMI 2016. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 191. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52712-3_13

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