Discovering authentication credentials in volatile memory of Android mobile devices

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volumn 399, Issue , 2013, Pages 178-185

  Apostolopoulos, Dimitris ^a   Marinakis, Giannis ^a   Ntantogian, Christoforos ^a   Xenakis, Christos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Android; Android applications; credentials discovery; mobile security; volatile memory acquisition

Indexed keywords

ANDROID (OPERATING SYSTEM); AUTHENTICATION; DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; MOBILE DEVICES;

ANDROID; ANDROID APPLICATIONS; ANDROID DEVICES; CREDENTIALS DISCOVERY; PASSWORD MANAGERS; VOLATILE MEMORY; VOLATILE MEMORY ACQUISITIONS;

MOBILE SECURITY;

EID: 84882976848     PISSN: 18684238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37437-1_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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