Managing smart phone security risks
2010 Information Security Curriculum Development Conference
"Andromaly": a behavioral malware detection framework for android devices
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
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Though relatively early days, malware for mobile devices such as smartphones and PDAs is developing fast. Since mobile devices now offer users the almost same capabilities as PCs, they also offer the same rewards for the criminal. Mobile malware is widening its scope. Take 'Lasco' for instance, a hybrid threat: a virus and worm combined. It infects individual files on the mobile device as well as spreading from one to the other. The author of Lasco has also explored the possibility of infecting beyond the mobile device itself. Cross-platform viruses for mobile devices are also emerging. 'Cxover' checks which operating system is running on the infected device. If it is a PC, it looks for mobile devices that are accessible via ActivSync and uses it to infect any accessible mobile device. Meanwhile the 'RedBrowser' trojan infects mobile phones running Java - in other words, most mobile phones. Don't be deceived by the apparent lull in mobile malware reports during the last few months. The history of software development clearly shows that time and time again ease of access is delivered ahead of security. Software running on mobile devices is no exception: it lives outside traditional network security and could easily become the weakest link in the corporate security system.