A Comprehensive Analysis of Android Security and Proposed Solutions

Abstract

Abstract-The increasing popularity of smart devices have led users to complete all of their daily work with these devices. Users are now able to shop online, share information with the applications that they install on their smart devices. Installed applications gain access to various sensitive information, such as the user's contact list, phone number, location. However, there is no control mechanism in place that can check whether these applications are safe to install. Therefore, applications are installed according to the users' decisions, without any limitations or warnings. As a result, users become the target of malicious applications, and the personal security and privacy are compromised. In this study, we investigate the security solutions that aim to protect the privacy and security of Android users. We reveal the shortcomings of mobile security solutions and shed light on the research community. Additionally, we present the taxonomy of Android-based mobile security solutions.

Secure Android-based Mobile Banking Scheme

“…The Android operating system has a basic security architecture that tries to secure user information and applications. The architecture provides a security model that adopts security in each layer and maintains flexibility in its design because of its open-source nature [2].…”

“…According to their results, 60% of the applications only use the INTERNET permission. Some of recent related works that tried to mitigate the Android OS-related threats effects is well summarized in [2] which classified them as follows: 1-Operating System-Based solutions…”

“…Applications rebuild may cause in many cases slowing down application running time. In [2] authors recommended that, this application should have been tried on a wider range of android applications to show its reliability. 3-Source code-based solutions These solutions consider the byte-coded files of applications.…”

“…Smartphones and other mobile computing devices are being widely adopted globally [1].The increasing popularity of smart devices has led users to perform all their day to day activities using these devices [2]. Hence, M-banking has become more convenient, effective and reliable [3].…”

Implementation of a web-based service for mobile application risk assessment

“…Although these studies offer insights for our study, they lack certain security and privacy-centric features such as risk analysis, risk scoring, and user-centric services. In our previous study [12], we analyzed these proposed solutions in detail and created a mobile security taxonomy. We also mentioned the need for a user-friendly, device-independent, web-based approach.…”