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US Patent Issued on Nov. 13 for "Methods and/or systems for an online and/or mobile privacy and/or security encryption technologies used in cloud computing with the combination of data mining and/or encryption of user's personal data and/or location data for marketing of internet posted promotions, social messaging or offers using multiple devices, browsers, operating systems, networks, fiber optic communications, multichannel platforms" (Colorado Inventor)

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A Framework for Enhancing Security and Privacy on Unmodified Mobile Operating Systems by Krupp, Brian, Sridhar, Nigamanth, Wenbing Zhao

“… In this paper, we discuss the components of a mobile operating system that require enhancements in the security and privacy controls that are inherent in modern mobile operating systems…”
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Companiesandmarkets.com: Operating System and Hardware Platform Convergence is Simplifying Hacking; Boosting Growth Potential in the Mobile Security Market

“… consumer interest in mobile computing equipment and smartphones are contributing to an increase in potential security and privacy risks, according to a new report…”
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US Patent Issued to NCC GROUP SECURITY SERVICES on Dec. 15 for "Methods and systems for rating privacy risk of applications for smart phones and other mobile platforms" (Virginia, New York Inventors)

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Fortinet(r): Fortinet Announces Carrier-Specific Multi-Threat Security Platform, Supports Cloud-Based Security Services; New FortiCarrier Operating System and Hardware Platform Bring Unique Carrier-Grade Capabilities for VOIP, Mobile Content Security

“…: securing voice-over-IP infrastructures and mobile operator content, and enabling automated provisioning and management of security policies on a per-user basis…”
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Fortinet Announces Carrier-Specific Multi-Threat Security Platform, Supports Cloud-Based Security Services; New FortiCarrier Operating System and Hardware Platform Bring Unique Carrier-Grade Capabilities for VOIP, Mobile Content Security

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F-Secure Ships Mobile Antivirus for Newest Series 60 Smartphones; Security Vendor Offers Protection for Newest Symbian OS Platform; World's Most Common Mobile Phone Operating System

“… 3.0 with support for S60 3rd Edition platform, the newest generation of the world's leading smartphone software operating system from Symbian…”
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Addonics Announces Advanced Platform, Software and Operating System Independent Hard Drive Security Solution for Mobile User's Sensitive Data

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Companiesandmarkets.com: Operating System and Hardware Platform Convergence is Simplifying Hacking; Boosting Growth Potential in the Mobile Security Market

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Addonics Announces Advanced Platform, Software and Operating System Independent Hard Drive Security Solution for Mobile User's Sensitive Data

“…Among the features of the Cipher Drive SC are Smart Card + PIN authentication; full disk hardware encryption using AES 256-bit key strength; an…”
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ATVHunter: Reliable Version Detection of Third-Party Libraries for Vulnerability Identification in Android Applications by Zhan, Xian, Fan, Lingling, Chen, Sen, We, Feng, Liu, Tianming, Luo, Xiapu, Liu, Yang

“…Third-party libraries (TPLs) as essential parts in the mobile ecosystem have become one of the most significant contributors to the huge success of Android, which facilitate the fast development of Android applications…”
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sNPU: Trusted Execution Environments on Integrated NPUs by Feng, Erhu, Feng, Dahu, Du, Dong, Xia, Yubin, Chen, Haibo

“…Trusted execution environment (TEE) promises strong security guarantee with hardware extensions for security-sensitive tasks…”
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RAP-Track: Efficient Control Flow Attestation via Parallel Tracking in Commodity MCUs by Neto, Antonio Joia, Caulfield, Adam, De Oliveira Nunes, Ivan

“…Control Flow Attestation (CFA) has emerged as an important security service to enable remote verification of control flow paths in safety-critical embedded systems…”
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DeFiWarder: Protecting DeFi Apps from Token Leaking Vulnerabilities by Su, Jianzhong, Lin, Xingwei, Fang, Zhiyuan, Zhu, Zhirong, Chen, Jiachi, Zheng, Zibin, Lv, Wei, Wang, Jiashui

“… However, the vulnerabilities hiding in the smart contracts of DeFi apps have resulted in numerous security incidents, with most of them leading to funds (tokens…”
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Enhancing Malware Detection for Android Apps: Detecting Fine-Granularity Malicious Components by Liu, Zhijie, Zhang, Liang Feng, Tang, Yutian

“…Existing Android malware detection systems primarily concentrate on detecting malware apps, leaving a gap in the research concerning the detection of malicious components in apps…”
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DynaMO: Protecting Mobile DL Models through Coupling Obfuscated DL Operators by Zhou, Mingyi, Gao, Xiang, Chen, Xiao, Chen, Chunyang, Grundy, John, Lit, Li

“…Deploying deep learning (DL) models on mobile applications (Apps) has become ever-more popular…”
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Return-to-Non-Secure Vulnerabilities on ARM Cortex-M TrustZone: Attack and Defense by Ma, Zheyuan, Tan, Xi, Ziarek, Lukasz, Zhang, Ning, Hu, Hongxin, Zhao, Ziming

“… technique, namely return-to-non-secure (ret2ns). We experimentally confirmed the feasibility of four variants of ret2ns attacks on two Cortex-M hardware systems…”
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How Android Apps Break the Data Minimization Principle: An Empirical Study by Zhang, Shaokun, Lei, Hanwen, Wang, Yuanpeng, Li, Ding, Guo, Yao, Chen, Xiangqun

“…The Data Minimization Principle is crucial for protecting individual privacy. However, existing Android runtime permissions do not guarantee this principle…”
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An Industrial Practice for Securing Android Apps in the Banking Domain by Malviya, Vikas K., Phan, Phong, Tun, Yan Naing, Ching, Albert, Shar, Lwin Khin

“… Mobile banking has a lot of advantages, but it also has security concerns. Illegal access to personal and financial information often occurs due to lapses in mobile security…”
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Wemint:Tainting Sensitive Data Leaks in WeChat Mini-Programs by Meng, Shi, Wang, Liu, Wang, Shenao, Wang, Kailong, Xiao, Xusheng, Bai, Guangdong, Wang, Haoyu

“… However, MiniApps raise new security and privacy concerns as they can access partially or all of host apps' system resources, including sensitive personal data…”
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