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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

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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 [...]

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

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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

28 Oct 2011 at 09:17

David Stites

Operating Systems, Software

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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

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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 [...]

Rumors of a “Home Button”-less iPad2 and iPhone5

13 Jan 2011 at 10:06

David Stites

Apple, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Mobile, Objective-C, Software

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Normally, I think that simpler is better. I enjoy simple things and not just necessarily things like the smell of cut grass, an ice cold beer at a friends BBQ, the first snowfall of winter or reading a book. After all, Occam was on to something (the law of succinctness is a principle which generally [...]

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