Mechanism for Security Enhancement in Mobile Application Installation

DOI

10.2991/iccia.2012.81How to use a DOI?

Keywords

mobile OS, application installation, trust, permission, User interface

Abstract

Mobile operating systems (e.g., iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, etc) are becoming powerful platforms on which various applications can be installed and run. Each mobile OS offers application store (e.g., Apple App Store, Android Play, etc) for developers to easily publish applications and earn profits. However, existing mobile platforms provide little means for mobile users to evaluate risks on allowing certain security permissions when installing mobile applications. Since mobile users may not be able to justify the risks on allowing certain permissions required by an application, mobile users may install malware with extra permissions, which leads to security risk for mobile users, e.g., private information leaked, etc. In this paper, we present process and visual User Interface for mobile users to understand and justify the risks on permissions required by mobile applications during installation. We also present two algorithms for calculating the risks.

Copyright

© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Peng Zhang
AU  - Hanlin Sun
AU  - Zheng Yan
PY  - 2014/05
DA  - 2014/05
TI  - Mechanism for Security Enhancement in Mobile Application Installation
BT  - Proceedings of the 2012 2nd International Conference on Computer and Information Application (ICCIA 2012)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 335
EP  - 338
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccia.2012.81
DO  - 10.2991/iccia.2012.81
ID  - Zhang2014/05
ER  -