Paranoid Android: Just how insecure is the most popular mobile platform?

Network Security

Volumn 2012, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 5-10

  Mansfield Devine, Steve ^a  

^a Network Security   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS-USERS; MALWARES; MOBILE PLATFORM;

COMPUTER CRIME; CRIME; ECOSYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMPUTING;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84866649310     PISSN: 13534858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1353-4858(12)70081-8     Document Type: Article

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