IJSRP, Volume 5, Issue 5, May 2015 Edition [ISSN 2250-3153]
Abdullah Mohammed Rashid & Ali Taha Al-Oqaily
Abstract:
Mobile devices such as mobile phones have become one of the most needed and important device for everyone living in the 21st century. This is due to their ability in accommodating people with information and effective communication that make people’s life easier and more meaningful. However, the conveniences offered by the devices come with security concern: mobile malware. There are many incidents caused by mobile malware that downgrade organization’s reputation or financial lost. The mobile malware represent a security threats to mobile devices, there are many types of mobile malware compromising the security platform. This paper discusses techniques to effectively detect and prevent the mobile malware and propose an improvement towards current techniques which gives better mobile malware detection and prevention.