The key challenges in mobile application security
Mobile security is not just about code running safely on the mobile device. Starting from the design, it also includes the residual data and data in motion.
Looking at the data and behavior of the application, any interesting mobile application will send back data to the server. Lots of applications use third-party web services. Some prevalent problems associated with data on different layers are mentioned as follows:
- Network layer: Data travelling from mobile applications from the device over Wi-Fi and data services
- Hardware layer: Baseband attacks, broadband attacks, and RF range attacks that can affect mobile features
- Operating system layer: Jailbreaking or rooting vulnerability in mobile platforms ...
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