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The users' degree of knowledge about smartphone application permissions
Šimonovský, Michal ; Gála, Libor (advisor) ; Šedivá, Zuzana (referee)
This bachelor thesis is focused on application permissions in Android OS. Main purpose of this thesis is to determine the user's degree of knowledge about permissions in this system. The purpose was fulfilled thanks to a survey among selected users and evaluation of this survey. The benefit of this thesis is in presentation of the survey's results which describes the user's degree of knowledge about permissions. Bachelor thesis is divided into two sections. First section processes theoretical basis for the survey. The theoretical basis consist of brief characteristics of Android OS, definition of guiding principles for application security and description of selected permissions. Further in this section is explained the permission declaration for application from the developer's view and describes the application installation process and the permission approval dialog. First section ends with a definition of used methodic for survey. Second section presents the results of the survey and derives consequences from these results.
Smartphone security
Rahm, Vladimír ; Luc, Ladislav (advisor) ; Doucek, Petr (referee)
This bachelor's thesis is focused on smartphone security risks and their solutions. The work is divided into three parts. The first part deals with the theoretical background in the form of a summary version of the most popular mobile operating systems. The second part focuses on three aspects, which are linked to the security of smartphones.In this section you can find an analysis of security risks for smartphones followed by the selection of most widely used mobile operating system in which it is exploring its security against malicious applications. In conclusion to this part a security analysis of a specific smartphone application is formed. The third part of this thesis is devoted to preventing security risks in the form of antivirus applications for smartphones. Within this section is created an overview of security products and analysis of whether these products can deal with security risks. The third part also analyzes user awareness of smartphone security risks and that is obtained by evaluation of survey among users.

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