ADDRESSING SECURITY ISSUES IN LATEST ANDROID VERSIONS AND APPLICATIONS

Bharath Ravi Prakash

Abstract: In present generations, smart phones are said to be ruling the world. There are many smart phone OS platforms running in market currently. The number of Android OS users are more than any other mobile OS platform. As the number of users for a particular OS increase, the amount of threats and vulnerabilities to that particular OS will also increase. Android OS because of its popularity among the users also has an equal number of threats and other vulnerabilities that the OS is prone to. We shall discuss and study various security issues that the Android OS is prone to, some of the methods to analyze the issues and some of the methods to tackle and overcome the issues. Also we shall discuss the issues that are addressed in the latest version of Android OS and the issues that still needs to be addressed.

Keywords: Android, APK, Manifest, Permissions and Services

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2017.0608017