Posts Tagged ‘android’

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, [...]

Content Recommendation Systems for a Mobile Platform

10 Apr 2010 at 01:36

David Stites

Machine Learning, Mobile, Software

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Abstract—Recommendation systems take artifacts about items and provide suggestions to the user on what other products the might like. There are many different types of recommender algorithms, including nearest-neighbor, linear classifiers and SVMs. However, most recommender systems are collaborative systems that rely on users to rate the products that they bought. This paper presents a [...]

Solving the Multitasking Problem in iPhone OS

01 Apr 2010 at 08:41

David Stites

iPhone, Mobile, Operating Systems, Software

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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 [...]