A dissection of ‘Paranoid Android’

Paranoid Android: Zero-Day Protection for Smartphones Using the Cloud

Smartphones have come to resemble PCs in software complexity. Moreover, as they are often used for privacy-sensitive tasks, they are becoming attractive targets for attackers. Unfortunately, they are quite different from PCs in terms of resources, so that PC-oriented security solutions are not always applicable. Worse, common security solutions (such as on-access file scanners, system call prof...

Paranoid Android: Android Malware Classification Using Supervised Learning on Call Graphs

Malware design and detection is an eternal arms race of increasing sophistication. A new front has been recently expanded in the discipline of malware obfuscation and self-modification, seeking to fool the signature-based approaches dominant in commercial anti-virus software. In response, security researchers have been seeking to design methods to classify executables based on their semantic fu...

Paranoid? Who Says I'm Paranoid?

Paranoid Android: just how insecure is the most popular mobile platform?

According to how you measure it, Android has moved ahead of iOS as the most popular smartphone platform in most territories. It generally lags way behind as far as tablets go – the iPad retains something of a stranglehold on that market – but significant numbers of Android tablets are being sold nonetheless. IDC figures from May 2012 give Android 59% of the worldwide market for smartphones agai...

Report of Unusual Self-Mutilation in A Paranoid Schizophrenic Patient

Self-mutilation is defined as intentional damaging of the body without intent to die.  This behavior is observed among groups of psychiatric patients particularly schizophrenics.  In these patients, self-mutilative behavior may have unusual manifestations related to delusion and hallucination.  In this article, an unusual form of self-mutilation of a paranoid schizophrenic patient is reported. ...