Smart-Phone Attacks and Defenses

摘要: Internet has been permeating into every corner of the world and aspect our lives, empowering us with anywhere, anytime remote access control over information, personal communications (e.g., through smart-phones), environment use sensors, actuators, RFIDs). While enabling interoperation brings tremendous opportunities in service creation information access, security threat also dauntingly extends its reach. In this paper, we wish to alarm community that long-realized risk is becoming a reality: Smart-phones, interoperable between telecom networks Internet, are dangerous conduits for threats reach infrastructure. The damage caused by subverted smart-phones could range from privacy violation identity theft emergency call center DDoS attacks national crises. We describe defense solution space including smart-phone hardening approaches, Internet-side defense, telecom-side coordination mechanisms may be needed networks. Much yet explored.