STAMBA: Security testing for android mobile banking apps

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STAMBA: Security testing for android mobile banking apps

Year : 2016

Publisher : Springer Verlagservice@springer.de

Source Title : Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

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Abstract

Mobile banking activity plays a major role for M-Commerce (Mobile-Commerce) applications in our daily life. With the increasing usage on mobile phones, vulnerabilities against these devices raised exponentially. The privacy and security of confidential financial data is one of the major issues in mobile devices. Android is the most popular operating system, not only to users but also for companies and vendors or (developers in android) of all kinds. Of course, because of this reason, it’s also become quite popular to malicious adversaries. For this, mobile security and risk assessment specialists and security engineers are in high demand. In this paper, we propose STAMBA (Security Testing for Android Mobile Banking Apps) and demonstrate tools at different levels. These supported tools are used to find threats at a mobile application code level, communication or network level, and at a device level.We give a detailed discussion about vulnerabilities that help design for further app development and a detailed automated security testing for mobile banking applications.