A novel approach to enhance the security of android based smart phones
Muneer Ahmad Dar · 2017
The growing use of Android applications (apps) has kept the novice users under constant threat in terms of unauthorized access of confidential data. Even the Antivirus software cannot access or monitor an Android device's file system, or dynamic behavior of installed apps due to platform limitations. That has grave consequences for device security, as any app - can still download and execute malicious files without getting detected by the user. In this paper we propose and implement a Runtime detection and prevention system. The proposed system will provide a second level of security by locking the apps trying to access the resources of the device without prior knowledge of the user. Our experimental studies show that this new System can overcome all the attacks by the apps to gather sensitive information, with small impacts on the utility of legitimate apps and the performance of the OS.