Team develops a simple defense for complex smartphone malware (w/ video)
Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 18:00
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org)—University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researchers have developed simple but effective techniques to prevent sophisticated malware from secretly attacking smartphones. The Tap-Wave-Rub (TWR) methods – tapping, waving a hand over or rubbing the phone's proximity sensor – are being presented at the 6th Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec'13) April 17-19, 2013, in Hungary, Budapest.