Topics in Smartphone Sec & Rel. 3 credits, 3 contact hours

Catalog description

This course covers current topics in the security and reliability of smartphones, and smartphone platform-based devices. The topics include but are not limited to understanding the software and hardware platforms; static and dynamic analyses for devices and apps; effective testing of devices and apps; formulating and launching attacks against these devices or apps, and understanding the security, privacy, and reliability risks that users expose themselves to when using such devices. The professor and students will present recent papers; discuss and critique papers, draw outlines for potential research explorations in this area; the students will complete a programming assignment designed to familiarize themselves with programming for the platform; the students will spend the rest of the individual work assignment on a project: running a research tool, designed to expose security and reliability issues, on popular platforms/apps/devices and reporting the findings.