Paper Info
Title
Know your enemy: the risk of unauthorized access in smartphones by insiders
Abstract
Smartphones store large amounts of sensitive data, such as SMS messages, photos, or email. In this paper, we report the results of a study investigating users' concerns about unauthorized data access on their smartphones (22 interviewed and 724 surveyed subjects). We found that users are generally concerned about insiders (e.g., friends) accessing their data on smartphones. Furthermore, we present the first evidence that the insider threat is a real problem impacting smartphone users. In particular, 12% of subjects reported a negative experience with unauthorized access. We also found that younger users are at higher risk of experiencing unauthorized access. Based on our results, we propose a stronger adversarial model that incorporates the insider threat. To better reflect users' concerns and risks, a stronger adversarial model must be considered during the design and evaluation of data protection systems and authentication methods for smartphones.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2493190.2493223
Mobile HCI
Keywords
Field
DocType
insider threat,sms message,data protection system,stronger adversarial model,authentication method,sensitive data,unauthorized access,unauthorized data access,large amount,higher risk
Short Message Service,Internet privacy,Authentication,Computer science,Computer security,Insider threat,Insider,Adversary,Data Protection Act 1998,Data access,Adversarial system
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
34
1.24
21
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ildar Muslukhov141518.51
Yazan Boshmaf249122.39
Cynthia Kuo342825.30
Jonathan Lester4980110.63
Konstantin Beznosov51521105.47