Cybersecurity Concerns in Smart-phones and applications: A survey
Maryam Abdulaziz Saad Bubukayr, Mohammed Amin Almaiah
Abstract
With the greater number of individuals using smartphones and apps increasing gradually, and with the easily of use. The users may perform more and more sensitive and critical tasks, making them a very lucrative target for attackers. Due to the flaws of existing smartphones and applications and multiple attacks on them, Researchers and academics have had to come up with full security measures challenge. Our result in this paper shows that most of all selected studies in this review targeted major cybersecurity threats in smart phones and apps such as malware attack, phishing attack, software failure, Dos attack, sniffing and spoofing attacks, physical attack, etc. This paper is a literature analysis providing a review of twenty previous studies related to cybersecurity in smartphones and apps. Also, identify major cybersecurity threats that could compromise the system based on four assets of smart-phone (device, data, application and network connectivity). Moreover, present and discuss some techniques to help improve security in smartphones and apps. Finally classify and prioritize the most significant threats that could affect the system.