Publication Details
Mobile Security for Banking on Android Platform
Hanáček Petr, doc. Dr. Ing. (DITS)
Android; Mobile; Banking; Money; Malware; Data leakage; Protection; Permissions
This paper discusses the proposal of protecting mobilebanking applications on an Android platform.The mobile platform surpasses computers in itspopularity in many aspects of ones daily routine.One of the basic feature is its connection to the internetand the possibility of transferring money usingthe mobile device. Despite threats that are availableon mobile devices like security breaches, dataleakage and other types of malware, the popularityof using mobile banking is more popular than afew years ago. Mobile banking applications havethe same security protection as any other mobileapplication, thus without additional specific protectionfor mobile banking supported by an operatingsystem. This paper proposes novel protectionfor applications which checks if the mobile bankingapplication communicates to the current bankcompany and the data (usually passwords, moneyamount etc.) are not sent to someone else. Thereis a discussion about another control mechanism:permissions which are used to access mobile devicehardware.
This paper discuss the proposal of protection for mobile banking application on Android platform. The mobile platform humble computers in its popularity in many aspects of daily routine. One of the basic feature is connection to the internet and possibility to transfer money using the mobile device. Despite of threats that are available on mobile devices like security breaches, data leakage and other types of malware, the popularity of using mobile banking is more popular than few years ago. Mobile banking applications have the same security protection like any other mobile applications, thus without additional specific protection for mobile banking supported by operating system. This paper proposes novel protection for applications which checks if the mobile banking application communicate to the current bank company and the data (usually passwords, money amount etc.) are not sent to someone else. There is discussion about another control mechanism; permissions which are used to access mobile device hardware.
@inproceedings{BUT130917,
author="Lukáš {Aron} and Petr {Hanáček}",
title="Mobile Security for Banking on Android Platform",
booktitle="Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing Technology, Information Security and Risk Management",
year="2016",
pages="7--14",
publisher="The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications",
address="Dubai",
isbn="978-1-941968-31-4",
url="http://sdiwc.net/digital-library/request.php?article=189c5380fdc9a92afb1434757d2c7a20"
}