Location based power analysis to detect malicious code in smartphones

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 27-32

  Dixon, Bryan ^a   Jiang, Yifei ^a   Jaiantilal, Abhishek ^a   Mishra, Shivakant ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

location; malware detection; power analysis; smartphones

Indexed keywords

LOCATION BASED; MALICIOUS CODES; MALWARE DETECTION; POWER ANALYSIS; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; SMARTPHONES; STRONG CORRELATION; USER LOCATION;

COMPUTER PRIVACY; MOBILE DEVICES; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT;

SIGNAL ENCODING;

EID: 80755181016     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2046614.2046620     Document Type: Conference Paper

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