Android Security
Table of Contents
(Landing Page)
1 What is Security? Privacy?
We will discuss the following terms/ ideas, in greater detail, in later lectures. They are clearer when discussed after we are done with specific examples.
- Bugs? Vulnerabilities? Exploits?
- Security Efforts? What Kind? By SysAdmin? Users?
- Detection
- Mitigation
- Prevention
- Repair
- Android Security
- Reading beyond the Lectures
- All the above in ./discussion.html
2 Android Security Architecture
2.1 Includes
- Network Security, TCP/IP, WiFi, NFC, BlueTooth, …
- Linux Kernel and Applications Security
- Android Specific Security
2.2 Lecture Slides
- Karim Yagmour's ELCE Talk 2014
- Android Security #1 PDF 45 slides, 2016
3 Security Built-Ins of Android
- Security Features of Android
- Security in the Android Development Process
- Platform Security Architecture
- System and Kernel Security
- Security Enhanced Android
- Application Security
- Authentication
- Encryption
- Access Control
- Verified Boot
- All the above in ./security-builtins.html
4 Mitigations
- ASLR
- ROP
- All the above in ../Mitigation
5 Past Exploits
- Ransomware on Android
- ../Exploits
- In-the-News
6 Detection
7 Prevention
8 Privacy
9 TBD Fix Broken Links
10 Android Security Over the Years
10.1 Over the Versions
10.2 Android Security Reports over the Years
- https://source.android.com/security/reports/Google_Android_Security_2014_Report_Final.pdf
- Report was made available on April 2, 2015.
- The report does not show authors name(s). But, likely written by Adrian Ludwig, the lead engineer for Android security at Google.
- https://source.android.com/security/reports/Google_Android_Security_2015_Report_Final.pdf 49pp
- https://source.android.com/security/reports/Google_Android_Security_2016_Report_Final.pdf 71pp
- https://source.android.com/security/reports/Google_Android_Security_2017_Report_Final.pdf 56 pp
- https://security.googleblog.com/2018/11/introducing-android-ecosystem-security.html Nov 2018
- https://security.googleblog.com/search/label/android security Google Play Protect in 2018: New updates to keep Android users secure February 26, 2019