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Computational Intelligence, Cyber Security and Computational Models pp 15–24Cite as

Smartphone Applications, Malware and Data Theft

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The growing popularity of smartphone devices has led to development of increasing numbers of applications which have subsequently become targets for malicious authors. Analysing applications in order to identify malicious ones is a current major concern in information security; an additional problem connected with smart-phone applications is that their many advertising libraries can lead to loss of personal information. In this paper, we relate the current methods of detecting malware on smartphone devices and discuss the problems caused by malware as well as advertising.

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  1. School of IT, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

    Lynn M. Batten

  2. Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Veelasha Moonsamy

  3. Faculty of Information Technology, Isra University, Amman, Jordan

    Moutaz Alazab

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  1. Applied Mathematics and Computational Sc, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

    Muthukrishnan Senthilkumar

  2. Applied Mathematics and Computational Sc, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

    Vijayalakshmi Ramasamy

  3. Applied Mathematics and Computational Sc, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

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  4. Applied Mathematics and Computational Sc, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

    C. Veeramani

  5. Department of Mathematics, Ryerson University, TORONTO, Ontario, Canada

    Anthony Bonato

  6. Fac. Science&Technology, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia

    Lynn Batten

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Batten, L.M., Moonsamy, V., Alazab, M. (2016). Smartphone Applications, Malware and Data Theft. In: Senthilkumar, M., Ramasamy, V., Sheen, S., Veeramani, C., Bonato, A., Batten, L. (eds) Computational Intelligence, Cyber Security and Computational Models. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 412. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0251-9_2

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