We consider the situation where an attacker is already in possession of the smartphone. This scenario is common because the user might forget her smartphone somewhere, i.e., in her office, canteen, etc., or an attacker manages to steal the smartphone (e.g., through pickpocketing, etc). More specifically, we target three scenarios: (i) an attacker accidentally finds the smartphone, (ii) the attacker is victim's friend or colleague (who knows about the implemented mechanism), and (iii) an attacker who tries to mimic the user behaviors (e.g., using recorded video, etc) to unlock the victim's smartphone. \subsection{Our Approach}\label{subsec:approach} \textsc{DialerAuth} requires its users to enter or tap any combination of 10-digits long number to replicate their dialing process and the way the user holds the device in her hand while tapping. We expect that most of the users are familiar with the dialing process. The first authentication factor in \textsc{dialerauth} is how the user enters her \emph{``text-independent''} number. The second authenticating factor is the hold behavior (profiled using the extracted features from the accelerometer and gyroscope sensors). Hence, imitating …show more content…
\textsc{Dialerauth} captures the key-hold and inter-stroke timings from the 10-digit long number. Similarly it extracts statistical features from the phone's micro-movements to profile the genuine user (as shown in the Figure \ref{fig:dialerauth_model}). The extracted feature vectors are concatenated together to form a final fused vector to model a bimodal system. Since, the target device is the smartphone, we apply feature selection scheme to (i) improve the system's accuracy, and to (ii) improve the performance (as processing of smaller feature vector may incur less computational cost and processing making decision time comparatively
After careful market research of some of the different phone markets in today’s industry; the market that was the most interest to the writer was the disability phone market. Of all the mobile phones researched, none were found to have Braille included; only speaking activated commands - designed to send text messages as well as calling. The idea the writer proposes is a phone for the visually impaired which has a sole purpose for calling people. The keys will be fitted with Braille so that the individuals are able to effectively feel what number they are pressing.
Rob Pettigrew is the manager of technical systems and help desk center of Wyoming Medical Center in Casper, Wyoming. Protecting networks are getting harder as there are different types of devices being used by companies. An example of this is Wyoming Medical Center has four different classifications of PCs, PCs in the hallways for the staff to use, PCs at the nursing stations, PCs in offices, and PCs on that move between patient rooms. Pettigrew deployed Novell ZenWorks to 850 of the medical centers 900 PCs to ensure each one has the right software. With having multiple applications, medical software systems, and the different machine types, and restrictions make it difficult for Pettigrew to ensure proper protection for the network. Another concern is the
"Christie reported that the doctor's laptop would not boot and showed only a black screen with a blinking cursor. Walked Christy through entering the system setup to verify boot settings. Walked her through running the Samsung Recovery feature to restore crucial Windows files. This issue was not resolved. Christy brought the computer to our office. Enabled UEFI boot which allowed the computer to boot into Windows, however, the system encountered a bluescreen and restarted. Booted into safe mode. Used a utility to determine the cause of the bluescreen and found it to be outdated wireless network adapter drivers. Downloaded and installed the latest drivers from the manufacturer, as well as the video adapter drivers. Searched
As technology continually advances, smartphones are becoming more like computers. However, we need to keep in mind the primary purpose a phone can provide in
The security measures taken place are fairly simple. The phone is protected by a 4 digit user created code. A user has ten times to enter in the correct code. Each time an incorrect code is entered, a time delay is hit. After 5 attempts, the user will have to wait one minute to try again. After attempt 7 and 8, 15 minutes an hour the ninth try. If the wrong password is entered in for the tenth time, then all the memory in the phone is deleted through an “auto-erase” function. In addition, this code must be punched in manually and cannot be automated. A 4 digit code has 9,999 unique
Hello, person I am currently texting! Now, you might think that this is a normal, not unusual human texting you, but I am about to blow your mind. I am not your ordinary person, I am not even a person at all. I am…. a phone! “What?!” you ask yourself. I can already hear you gasping in disbelief.
The team compared the usability and security of text passwords created or used on phones or tablets which is referred to as mobile devices and those created on laptops and desktops known
In today’s society, people are losing sight of how important privacy truly is. We, as Americans, may seem concerned about our privacy, but this “concern” does not stop us from acquiring the latest and greatest technology. Designers are building technology with no consideration of the security and privacy of their consumers. People are purchasing these new iPhones with fingerprint recognition and downloading different apps everyday with the thought of privacy and security in the back of their minds. Cell phones are becoming so advanced that consumers are able to complete multiple tasks ranging from turning their lights off at home to checking their blood pressure. The biggest question that people may have is, “who has access to this data?” Manufactures of the latest technology should increase their security of the technology in phones because it is easy for a hacker to get that information.
Consumer guides defines a smart phone as “handheld electronic device that has features of both a mobile phone and a computer”. The security issue of malware in smartphones has been an ongoing problem but the most important security issue in smartphones today is the data over collection by the apps in the smartphones. More than the information you store, the modern day devices also use your biometrics like fingerprints and voice recognition systems which is the collection of certain voice characteristics for the purpose of recognizing an individual currently implicates a range of laws as found by Stacey Grey,
These cell phones also ensure the authentic ownership of the gadget and the confidentiality of the information stored. Snell, (2013) explains how one can control access to stored information and the installed applications. The modern small phones contain an application which, when installed uses fingerprints to lock and unlock the device. The strategic location of the application at the start menu ensures that the device is only used by the authorized staff. It further ensures the security of the stored information in case of theft. The thief will not access the information nor restore factory setting of the phone.
Smart phones are used for social networking, web browsing, online banking and many more. They also possess unique features of a mobile phone such as SMS, GPS and ubiquitous access. The functionality and popularity of smart phones, make them target of malicious activities. Section II talks about user perception of Smart phone security. Section III gives a brief overview of incentives to targeting mobiles. Section IV and V talk about few ways of attacking smart phone and measure to prevent/detect them and finally Section V picture the mobile malware timeline.
These papers "Design of Touch Dynamics Based User Authentication with an Adaptive Mechanism on Mobile Phone," by Y. Meng, D. S. Wong, and L.-F. Kwok , and " Continuous Mobile Authentic-cation Using Touchscreen Gestures," by T. Feng, Z. Liu, K.-A. Kwon, W. Shi, B. Carbunar, Y. Jiang, and N. Nguy are compared. The two papers illustrate that touchscreen mobile phones are very popular and used to store sensitive information such as passwords, personal photos and business information [1,2]. Thus, smartphones become valuable places and targets for attacks. Moreover, smartphones are eligible to be stolen and lost which enhances the chance for unauthorized users access to personal, sensitive information [1,2]. Consequently, the Y. Meng et al.
Mobile phones play huge role in our lives as they help us get connected to each other all the time. Since the last decade, Mobile phones continued to evolve into smartphones which can do much more than calling and texting. Smartphones are nothing but computers with extra internal hardware specifically a GSM radio (Global System for Mobile Communications) and a baseband processor that controls the radio. Along with these primary hardware components, smartphones now comes embedded with additional hardware such as NFC (Near Field Communications) and other sensors which can make it far more useful than in general. This proliferation of smartphones has gotten the concern of mobile security back into emphasis. Smartphones are swiftly becoming a
In the Clarion pilot, selected hotel guests received a Samsung mobile phone with NFC technology and digital keys software from ASSA ABLOY They booked their hotel rooms the usual way and received confirmation on their mobile phones. Before arrival, they were texted a link for on-line check-in, after which a digital hotel room key was delivered to their phones. Upon arrival, guests skipped the check-in line, went directly to their rooms, and opened their doors by holding their mobile phones close to the door locks. Upon departure, the doors locked automatically, and guests checked out by touching their phones to a lobby kiosk, which completed checkout and deactivated their room keys [38].
The primary extent of this paper is to recognize the lost mobiles. Every single day a large number of mobiles get lost or lost, however compelling path for the hindering of the lost versatile to keep unapproved individual from making and accepting the calls has been finished by the makers of the portable with the assistance of International Mobile Equipment Identifier (IMEI) has been done yet however there has been no improvement or next to no advancement for the recognition of the lost cell telephone.