Dijana Vuković
Elektrotehnički fakultet, Univezitet u Banjoj Luci
Aleksandar Keleč
Elektrotehnički fakultet, Univezitet u Banjoj Luci
Keywords:
Android, mobile devices
Abstract
People use smart phone applications in different areas of their lives: taking photos and publish them online, sending e-mail, scanning QR codes, instant messaging etc. These are just a small subset of possibilities for these kinds of applications available nowadays. Installing application usually means granting privileges to the application, such as: Internet access, camera access, etc. Granting the privileges can lead to privacy issues that will affect the end user. In this paper security of the Android operating system has been discussed and one example of exploitation of its weaknesses – camera-based attack - to violate the end user’s privacy is given. Potential solution for the privacy issues is discussed and an overview of improvements related to privacy on new Android OS – Marshmallow is given.
