Handsets Malware Threats and Facing Techniques
It tackles malware threats in mobile handsets, which are critical for users and developers, but is incremental as it focuses on categorization rather than novel solutions.
This paper addresses the security challenges in mobile handsets due to market-driven development neglecting security, by studying malware threats and containment techniques, and proposes a new approach to group malware containment systems by typologies.
Nowadays, mobile handsets combine the functionality of mobile phones and PDAs. Unfortunately, mobile handsets development process has been driven by market demand, focusing on new features and neglecting security. So, it is imperative to study the existing challenges that facing the mobile handsets threat containment process, and the different techniques and methodologies that used to face those challenges and contain the mobile handsets malwares. This paper also presents a new approach to group the different malware containment systems according to their typologies.