Mechanism for Security Enhancement in Mobile Application Installation
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.
mobile OS application installation trust permission User interface
Peng Zhang Hanlin Sun Zheng Yan
Research Institute of Mobile Internet Xian University of Posts and Telecommunications Xian, China School of Compute Science Xian University of Posts and Telecommunications Xian, China Department of ComNet, Aalto University Espoo, Finland State Key Laboratory of ISN, Xidian University
国际会议
太原
英文
335-338
2012-12-08（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）