Securing android-powered mobile devices using SELinux

Asaf Shabtai; Yuval Fledel; Yuval Elovici

doi:10.1109/MSP.2009.144

Securing android-powered mobile devices using SELinux

Asaf Shabtai, Yuval Fledel, Yuval Elovici

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Abstract

Google's Android framework incorporates an operating system and software stack for mobile devices. Using a general-purpose operating system such as Linux in mobile devices has advantages but also security risks. Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) can help reduce potential damage from a successful attack.

Original language	English
Article number	5342408
Pages (from-to)	36-44
Number of pages	9
Journal	IEEE Security and Privacy
Volume	8
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MSP.2009.144
State	Published - 1 Jan 2010

Keywords

Access control
Android
Linux security modules
Mobile computing
Mobile devices
SELinux
Security

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Computer Networks and Communications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Law

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