5. Malware Protection/PreventionTechniques
Prevention by Platform Diversity
One of the main insights into the presence of malware is provided by the pattern of the battery consumption by the application or the software that is suspected of being a malware. The key to identifying misbehaving application using the battery power consumption is to determine the battery consumption pattern of a normal application. The techniques used to detect power consumption statistics in real time are relatively low cost. The works by Jacoby et.al have identified techniques such that a greedy malware would always do certain malicious activity like scanning, or sending SMS which would be identified in their power consumption behavior.
Figure 11: Bridged Mode for execution
The idea of maintaining platform-diversity could be an effective solution to reducing the number of malwares. A single malware would be rendered ineffective when there is a completely different interface connecting any two mobile devices. Yan et.al suggests using a two layer protection mechanism to counter mobile malware. One of the layers is encountered is while installing the app. The user is asked to shift to a bridged mode while installing the app and a different execution environment while developing a particular application. The challenges faced while using this approach is correctly map the execution environment to the development. The bridged phase should be as short as possible.
Figure 12: Sandbox Approach
Figure 13: Power Consumption
Sandboxing the app allows for removing certain privileges to be temporarily revoked. Thus sandboxing can provide effective malware protection in some cases. A hardware sandbox is further helpful in protection key hardware re...
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...art deals with maintaining a list of rules that would detect any suspicious behavior of the app by maintaining known signatures. The second part would include a utility such as snort provided as open source with Ubuntu 12.04 release that can monitor the network interfaces. The rules created earlier also contain known safe signatures to avoid false positives.
The VPN tunnel captures the traffic that flows between the smartphone and the Internet. The following Http requests are flagged against the signature rules that are applied.
The VPN tunnel captures the traffic that flows between the smartphone and the Internet. The following Http requests are flagged against the signature rules that are applied.
Malware Detected: TrojanFakeLookout
Malware Detected :AndroidFakelash - Android SMS trojan
Malware Detected:AndroidFakelash - Android SMS Trojan
Authentication Header (AH) and Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) are a part of the IPSec components, they are network layer protocols allowing secured communications through a VPN tunnel. Within a firewall to enable communication for AH one will use protocol 50 and for ESP protocol 51 (Frankel, Hoffman, Orebaugh & Park, 2008), both protocols 50 and 51 can be enable within the same end-to-end IPSec connection which is the Tunnel Mode connected by two gateways. Nonetheless, for Transport Mode, there are some restrictions in the order in which they appear. While AH supports connectionless integrity and authentication of the packets, ESP provides data origin authentication and confidentiality through the use of encryption, both AH and ESP provide
[39] Kevin Johnson and Tony DeLaGrange. SANS Institute. SANS Survey on Mobility/BYOD Security Policies and Practices 2012 [Online] Available from: http://www.sans.org/reading-room/analysts-program/SANS-survey-mobility [Accessed 07 Dec 2013]
Cisco’s annual Internet Traffic Report (2013) shows that mobile traffic, perhaps the largest growing bucket of data in the world, continues to rocket upwards as people consume more video.
TOR (Roger Dingledine) is a circuit based low-latency anonymous communication service. TOR is now in its second generation and was developed from the Onion routing program. The routing system can run on several operating systems and protect the anonymity of the user. The latest TOR version supports perfect forward secrecy, congestion control, directory servers, integrity checking and configurable exit policies. Tor is essentially a distributed overlay network which works on the application layer of the TCP protocol. It essentially anonymizes all TCP-based applications like web-browsing, SSH, instant messaging. Using TOR can protect against common form of Internet surveillance known as “traffic analysis” (Electronic Frontier Foundation). Knowing the source and destination of your internet traffic allows others to track your behavior and interests. An IP packet has a header and a dat...
In todays fast pace world of technology many of us leave ourselves vulnerable to become victims of a cybercrime. With people using the internet to do everything from paying bills, personal banking, and on-line shopping their financial and personal information is available at the stroke of a key to a hacker. Often someone is unaware that they have been attacked and had their information stolen. The use of the internet has grown exorbitantly throughout the world. Nelson Online reported that as of December 31, 2014, there were 360,985,492 users of the internet throughout the world. (2015) With so many users in so many countries accessing the internet, prosecuting cybercrimes is nearly impossible.
...hone end user starts the activities, mobile phone secret agent will begin recording the activities covertly and also directs the particular recorded records for you to cell phone secret agent hosts. It's simple to don't wait, membership in the accounts via granted code & username and see the many recorded routines.
Computers are main technological features that allow criminals to step into unsuspecting victims lives. With a simple piggy-backing program hackers are able to track every keystroke made by the victim. One such program is called spyware, not to be confused with adware, which is often referred to interchangeably with spyware, but is potentially harmless (Louis 15). Spyware, hidden within downloaded software, implants itself deep within a computer’s hard drive, allowing it to track every move made by the user (Louis 16).
Internet VPN is a solution that utilizes a shared infrastructure in a way that provides you high performance and strong security. Internet VPN offers you the benefits of a private network (security, controlled performance) with the advantages of public networks (flexibility, scalability, redundancy, load sharing, performance, and lower costs).
SoftEther VPN is one of the world's most powerful and easy-to-use multi-protocol VPN software made by the good folks at University of Tsukuba, Japan. It runs on Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD and Solaris and is freeware and open-source. You can use SoftEther for any personal or commercial use for free of charge.
Mobile devices are being exposed to a record number of security threats with potentially alarming statistics indicating a 400 percent increase in Android malware for example, while Wi-Fi connections are also being increasingly targeted. While the conventional desktop PC will still continue to serve important functions at both consumer and professional levels, there is an expectation that mobile devices will become the predominant form for accessing both personal and professional content it is understandable that cyber criminals have begun focusing on mobile devices which have at the same time grown their user base while substantially consolidating the operating system variants which makes the surface area for a potential attack substantially larger (...
“ Prevention is better than cure ”, if computer users are aware of Malware attacks, they may prevent those attacks . So, in this research paper i am going to focus on Malware and Protecting Against Malware.
Cyber Security as an International Security Threat National and International Security is a sum of the actions taken by countries and other organizations that can guarantee the safety and well being of their population. It is vital for a nation to pre-emptively discover what issues could affect their security, and take action to prevent any detrimental or harmful events from happening. With the development of technology and the transition into a more technologically savvy society, cyber security has become one of the most prevalent and important economic and national security issues that the United States will come to face. United States President Barack Obama has identified cyber security as a key issue the nation will face. President Obama declared that the “cyber threat is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation” and that “America's economic prosperity in the 21st century will depend on cyber security (“Foreign Policy Cyber Security,” 2013).”
Cyber security is the protection of networks, computers, programs and data from attack, damage or unauthorized access. This is important because a great number of our confidential information is on computers and transmit that data across networks to other computers. As of now cyber-attack is one of the transnational issues that we are concern about in the United States. If these private networks were hack our national security infrastructure will be in distress.
In today’s days malware is designated as a software which aims to disturb a computer with the consent or permission of the owner. This term “Malware” is used by computer professionals to describe a varied forms of destructive, annoying and intrusive software code. This word “Malware” is used to indicate all types of malware which include a true set of viruses.
Cybercrime refers to all forms of crime conducted through a computer or a mobile device using computer networks. It is thus the use of a computer with the aim of intercepting and manipulating content, disrupting communication, stealing or generally destroying others’ information or hardware through a network. Although cybercrime is a worldwide problem and affects both small and big companies, small companies are affected more from the dangers of cybercrime. The rapid advancement in technology is causing tremendous problems to businesses in terms of more sophisticated cyber-attacks. This project is interesting and beneficial because it enlightens one on the dangers of cybercrime, thus preparing individuals to know how to prevent attacks while online, how to reduce the effects of a cyber-attack and how to prevent future