期刊
COMPUTERS & SECURITY
卷 34, 期 -, 页码 47-66出版社
ELSEVIER ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
DOI: 10.1016/j.cose.2012.11.004
关键词
Application markets; Security awareness; Security survey; Smartphone platforms; Smartphone security
资金
- European Union (European Social Fund - ESF)
- Greek national funds through the Operational Program Education and Life Learning of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) Research Funding Program: Heracleitus II
Smartphone users increasingly download and install third-party applications from official application repositories. Attackers may use this centralized application delivery architecture as a security and privacy attack vector. This risk increases since application vetting mechanisms are often not in place and the user is delegated to authorize which functionality and protected resources are accessible by third-party applications. In this paper, we mount a survey to explore the security awareness of smartphone users who download applications from official application repositories (e.g. Google Play, Apple's App Store, etc.). The survey findings suggest a security complacency, as the majority of users trust the app repository, security controls are not enabled or not added, and users disregard security during application selection and installation. As a response to this security complacency we built a prediction model to identify users who trust the app repository. The model is assessed, evaluated and proved to be statistically significant and efficient. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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