Title
New generation of mobile phone viruses and corresponding countermeasures
Abstract
The fast growing market for smart phones coupled with their almost continuous online presence makes these devices the new targets of virus writers. It has been recently found that the topological spread of MMS (Multimedia Message Services) viruses is highly restricted by the underlying fragmentation of the call graph. In this paper, we study MMS viruses under another type of spreading behavior: scanning. We find that hybrid MMS viruses including some level of scanning are more dangerous to the mobile community than their standard topological counterparts. However, the effectiveness of both scanning and topological behaviors in MMS viruses can generally be limited by two controlling methods: (i) decreasing susceptible handsets' market share (OS it runs) and (ii) improving monitoring capacity to limit the frequency in which MMS messages can be sent by the mobile viruses.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2010
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
mobile communication,market share,call graph
Field
DocType
Volume
Mobile community,Computer security,Computer science,Computer network,Call graph,Mobile phone,Market share
Journal
abs/1012.3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
4
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pu Wang128917.72
Marta C. González229918.26
Ronaldo Menezes310.36
Albert-lászló Barabási446491107.35
Ronaldo Menezes510.36