Security Threats in the Smartphone’s

Abstract: Mobiles phones are the one of the most potent and fastest means of communication by the modern society. The first and 2nd generation of the devices was used only for calling and texting but the advancement in the field of Information Technology and communication has provided users 3G & 4G mobiles which are frequently called Smartphone, which enable the user to have many features such as high quality camera, web browsing, up to 64 GB on board memory much higher than the older days PCs hence taking the place as handheld PCs. These mobiles mainly have IOS, Android, Window, Blackberry, Symbian, Java & Bada as one of the operating system. Whenever users start these smartphones they have to login to their server and hence have to provide your information to the server. Similarly when users use other social networking sites on these devices uploads the personal/family information including pictures and videos. Some users also start operating their bank account through them; this important & confidential information can be accessed by the unauthorized persons for commission of crimes. Present work concentrates on studying the vulnerability of Smartphone’s of different make and model to the attack of different viruses and malwares