Class: NCS 320 Information Assurance Fundamentals
A Window into Mobile Device Security by “Carey Nachenberg & VP, Fellow”
The article had discussed the security weaknesses related to the two most widely used OS’s: Android and iOS along with the possible risks associated with those weaknesses. Nowadays, phones became more than just a mean of communication, now they serve more as portable computer that can be used to access corporate services, view data and conduct various transactions. Most of these devices have no administrative control over them, thus leaving sensitive data vulnerable.
Both Operating systems have their own security flaws. Each OS was tested to determine their resistance towards web-based and network-based attacks, malware, social engineering, resource and service availability abuse, malicious and unintentional data loss and attacks on the integrity of the device’s data.
Apple iOS
IOS’s primarily based on access control, encryption, application provenance, and isolation.
Traditional access control: (Just like any other smartphone, iOS gives the administrator option to setup password and choose its strength, the classic way to prevent unauthorized entity to access the system. Another option is account lock out, which means that there are only a certain number of failed login attempts. Once the maximum number of attempts is reached, the device will lock or wipe itself
One of the strongest aspects of the iOS is its Application Provenance technique. The registration is required for each developerEach developer is required to go through registration process with Apple and pay annual licensing fee in order to release its software to general public. Developers must digitally sign each app with Apple-issued digita...
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Permission-based Access Control: The problem with this approach is that it relies upon user to make security decisions, and decide whether an app’s requested combination of permissions is safe or not.
Application Provenance: Unlike Apple, software developers need not apply to Google to obtain a code-signed certificate. Instead, app developers can generate their own signing signatures, as often as they like. The result is that malware author can generate “anonymous” digital certificates, leaving author untraceable.
Encryption: Only the latest generations of Android tablet devices support hardware encryption to protect data. However, earlier versions relied upon isolation rather than on encryption. So if an attacker is able to obtain physical access to the device or jailbreak it, he can access every byte of data on the device.
Nicholas Carr wrote ‘How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds’ published in the Wall Street Journal in 2017. Carr believes that as the brain becomes reliant on smartphones the intellect diminishes.
Thesis: Twenge affectively uses emotional appeals to persuade her readers into believing that the excessive use of smartphone has ruined a generation.
In “ How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds,” Nicholas Carr is persuading his audience to refrain from and shorten their amount of smartphone usage, and he reveals his perspective on how he believes that smartphones are hijacking our minds, and causing issues in our society. Carr cleverly uses several devices to persuade his audience and to drive his point home. Among these devices are statistics, comprehensive language, and reasoning. Nicholas Carr uses statistics to involve the data he has found to support his claim that numbers don’t lie. “In both tests, the students whose phones were in view posted the worst scores.
There is constant concern about different kinds of devices and tools because of their vulnerability: laptops; personal computers in the home; libraries and public workstations; USB Flash Drives and email, to name a few. These items are easily accessible for those attempting to breach security.... ... middle of paper ... ...
In this technology driven era, I question what effect cell phones are having on our lives as American citizens? To investigate this, I read two articles. The first reading was “Mobile Phone Tracking Scrutinized” by Nikki Swartz originally published in the Information Management Journal for March/April 2006, and the second reading was “Reach out and Track Someone” by Terry J. Allen, originally published by In These Times on May 15, 2006. In her article, Swartz questions the legality of using a cell phone’s GPS system as a tracking device in situations when crimes are involved. She argues the potential violation of Fourth Amendment rights and describes loopholes our government avoids when the data is as a surveillance device. In her article, “Reach Out and Track Someone”, Allen shows the conspiracy theorist’s view of cell phone data tracking use. She suggests the government uses of warrantless wiretapping, and argues the communications companies and government have been involved in questionable activities (p1). Swartz and Allen question the government’s practices using cell phone data; Swartz sees the issue as practical is some cases, where Allen sees an overt violation of privacy. Both of the articles brought up two important questions. How do we define our expectation of privacy, and when does the government’s need take precedence, and even violate an individual’s expectation of privacy?
As the internet is becoming faster and faster, an operating system (OS) is needed to manage the data in computers. An Operating system can be considered to be a set of programed codes that are created to control hardware such as computers. In 1985 Windows was established as an operating system and a year earlier Mac OS was established, and they have dominated the market of the computer programs since that time. Although, many companies have provided other operating systems, most users still prefer Mac as the most secured system and windows as it provides more multiple functions. This essay will demonstrate the differences between windows
The analysis started in chapter two with examining the definition of software and the conditions and circumstances under which it is protected by two intellectual property rights, namely copyright and patent. In chapter three the questionable legal nature of software was reviewed and the possibilities to exploit rights in software –under licenses- were explained. Further, in chapter four, the definition of open source was introduced and major open source licenses currently in use were presented. A conclusion that came out was that the open-source licensing regimes are no longer confined to idealistic or academic programmers but have led to the creation of diverse licenses that provide for different possibilities and accordingly are more or less compatible with copyright protection. In chapter five the most important legal controversies around open source software licenses from a contractual point of view were put under scrutiny. This analysis estimated that the uncertainty around the contractual nature of ...
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Perceptions of the security and privacy in the new era of technology are reflected in how users handle their personal information on a daily basis in relation to their electronic devices and services. People are less willing to input sensitive information such as their social security number or financial credentials into a mobile device as opposed to a laptop computer, many citing security concerns as the reason why they did not want to input the information (Chin et al. 4). The public feels that their private and sensitive information cannot be protected by the security systems of their smartphones. As a result, they dictate their actions with their electronic devices in order to manually preserve and protect their digital
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