A multi-dimensional measure for intrusion
Ashish Agrawal, Balwinder Sodhi, Prabhakar Tv · 2013
Security in personal devices like mobile phones, tablets, is a major concern because these devices often carry sensitive information. Device platforms (e.g. Android) implement "limit access" and "authorize" security tactics to protect privacy/security-sensitive resources against misuse by an app. For instance, Android defines a set of 100+ permissions that guard resources such as phonebook data, network sockets and so on. However, due to poor understanding of these complex permissions, users inadvertently grant dangerous permissions to the apps, which defeat the security tactics implemented.