"Smartphones and tablets used by today's consumers include many kinds
of sensitive information," says Ninghui Li, a professor of Computer
Science at Purdue University in Indiana.
The apps downloaded to
them can potentially track a user's locations, monitor his or her phone
calls and even monitor the messages a user sends and receives--including
authentication messages used by online banking and other sites, he
says, explaining why unsecured digital data are such a big issue.
Li, along with Robert Proctor and Luo Si, also professors at Purdue, lead a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded project "User-Centric Risk Communication and Control on Mobile Devices," that investigates computer security. The work pays special attention to user control of security features in mobile systems..."
Smartphone security
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