Android Mobile Applications Vulnerabilities and Prevention Methods: A Review
Hilmi Abdullah, Subhi R. M. Zeebaree
Abstract
The popularity of mobile applications is rapidly increasing in the age of smartphones and tablets. Communication, social media, news, sending emails, buying, paying, viewing movies and streams, and playing games are just a few of the many uses for them. Android is currently the most popular mobile operating system on the planet. The android platform controls the mobile operating system market, and the number of Android Mobile applications grows day by day. At the same time, the number of attacks is also increasing. The attackers take advantage of vulnerable mobile applications to execute malicious code, which could be harmful and access sensitive private data. Security and privacy of data are critical and must be prioritized in mobile application development. To cope with the security threats, mobile application developers must understand the various types of vulnerabilities and prevention methods. Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) lists the top 10 mobile applications security risks and vulnerabilities. Therefore, this paper investigates mobile applications vulnerabilities and their solutions.