A presentation by David Stites on mobile app security issues.
Please note the new room assignment of the Carnegie Room at the rear of the main level.
Mobile devices, such as smartphones or PDAs have become increasingly popular with consumers and often provide essential functionality in our everyday life. Usually these mobile devices contain lots of sensitive information, such as addresses, contacts, ingoing/outgoing call logs, SMS messages, and on latest models, a calendar, emails and potentially the user’s current position. A smartphone or mobile device today is as powerful as a desktop or laptop and while the latest models feature a complete OS, for many users these devices are “just phones”, so there is a underestimation of the risk connected to mobile device security. This makes mobile devices an interesting target for malicious users. Damages that a user can sustain are financial loss, privacy and confidentiality, slowdown of processing speed, battery life.
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About David:
David is the owner of A Few Guys Coding, LLC that does part-time development for both iOS and web (Ruby on Rails) projects. David also works full-time at EW Defense Systems, a small defense contractor in Peyton. He is involved in planning, development, testing and maintenance of C DSP and firmware code, as well as Java front-end interfaces for RF signal detection, collection and analysis of ECM (electronic counter-measures) for the Air Force. David has a B.S. from Purdue University in computer science and is currently working on his Ph.D in computer science at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. His interests include operating systems, computer networks, computer security and parallel and distributed architectures. His website is www.afewguyscoding.com. When David isn't doing computer related things he enjoys snowboarding, cooking and flying
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