The author surveyed over 230 applications (the full list of applications ,can be found in A Survey Of Mobile Device Security: Threats, Vulnerabilities and Defenses), including applications in the “Top” categories on the iTunes store to determine what type of information could be extracted from auditing packet streams. The results were quite surprising. To perform [...]
Archive for the ‘Operating Systems’ Category
Affected Applications from “A Survey Of Mobile Device Security: Threats, Vulnerabilities and Defenses”
17 Jan 2012 at 09:25
David Stites
Apple, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Mobile, Operating Systems, Security, Software
A Survey Of Mobile Device Security: Threats, Vulnerabilities and Defenses
14 Dec 2011 at 00:09
David Stites
Android, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Mobile, Operating Systems, Security, Software
By David Stites and Anitha Tadimalla {dstites, atadimalla}@uccs.edu University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Abstract— Mobile devices, such as smartphones and PDAs have become increasingly popular with consumers and often provide essential functionality in our everyday life. Usually these mobile devices contain lots of sensitive information, such as addresses, contacts, ingoing/outgoing call logs, SMS messages, [...]
BackTrack 5 R1 and Older Wireless Dongles
Recently I started doing some interesting security work. I downloaded a great series from Vivek Ramachandran on 802.11 Wireless Hacking. For the series, he suggested using the Alfa Networks AWUS036h card. Because I have a wedding coming up and I need to save money, I wanted to see if I could get it working without [...]
A Survey on Resource Management and Allocation Techniques in Autonomic Distributed Systems
31 Mar 2011 at 14:11
David Stites
Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Operating Systems, Software, Web
Abstract— With the Internet becoming a major resource for many individuals, business, universities and countries, there is an increasing amount of traffic on the Internet. Some applications available on the Internet need to be able to provide stringent performance guarantees from their web servers (such as online securities trading). Due to the fact that Internet [...]
Solving the Multitasking Problem in iPhone OS
iPhone OS is one of the most advanced OS available today – and it s a mobile OS. Using the OS, it is clear to see why mobile computing is the future. When compared to other OSs, the iPhone OS holds it’s own. Broadly, looking at most modern desktop OSs, it has support for nearly [...]