ScienceDaily (13 month 2011) researchers at the University of North Carolina have developed software that helps prevent their personal information stolen by hackers smartphone Android.
"There are lots of concerns potential leaks of personal information from smartphones," says Dr. Xuxian Jiang, an Assistant Professor of computer science at NC State and co-author of paper describing the research. "We have developed software that creates a privacy mode for Android, give users a flexible control over what personal information is available for various applications." software application called privacy Smartphone steal information and Taming (TISSA).
TISSA works by creating a private Administrator setting that allows users to customize the level of information ????? access to all Smartphone application. These settings can be changed whenever the relevant applications that have been executed – not only when the applications are not installed.
The prototype of TISSA has four possible privacy settings for each application. These settings are trusted, Anonymized, Bogus, empty. If an application is trusted, TISSA does not impose restrictions on access to additional information. If the user chooses Anonymized, TISSA provides the application with a built-in information that allows the application to run, without providing access to detailed personal information. Artificial setting provides an application with fake results asking for personal information. An empty setting responds to requests of information by saying relevant information does not exist or is not available.
Jiang said it was easy to integrate TISSA change more settings to allow more fine-grained control of access to personal information. "These settings may be even more specialized for different types of information, such as a list of your contacts or position," said Jiang. "Settings can also be specialized for different applications."
For example, a user can install a weather application that requires location data to provide the user with the local weather forecast. Instead of telling the application exactly where is the user, can be programmed to TISSA was a built-in application data — such as random location within a 10-mile section of the user. This will allow an application to provide weather information, local weather, but will ensure that the application could not be used to track the movements of the user.
Researchers are now exploring how to make the software available for Android users. "Relatively minor software change," Jiang said, "and it can combine with the over-the-air update."
The paper, "Taming information-stealing applications Smartphone (bandroaid), was a surgeon by Jiang; Yajin Zhou 's, ph d student. On the NC State; Dr. Vincent Freeh, a Professor of computer science at NC State; And Dr. Zhang's Research Center, Xinwen of Huawei America. The paper will be presented at the Fourth International Conference, trusted computing, in Pittsburgh, finances and research supported by the National Science Foundation, NC State secure open systems initiative, which receives funding from the research of the United States Army.
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