Smartphone security and contact synchronization(paper id1569866867)

SMARTPHONE SECURITY AND CONTACT SYNCHRONIZATION

AUTHORSKunal Gupta, Ravi Kumar, Sachin Loothra

Presented by : Ravi Kumar Amity University,

Noida

Current Scenario – About Smartphone Theft

•Every year, smartphones costing $30 billion are lost/stolen.

•Worst part – most of these smartphone theft cases remain unsolved, and yet no interest in solving this problem from manufacturers of these smart gadgets.

•Smartphone Theft – fastest growing undetectable crime.

Have you ever wondered ?

What would happen if you lost/changed yoursmartphone?

•Contacts Lost•Transferring Contacts.

SSCS : A complete solution to above problemsThe “Smartphone Security & Contact Synchronization (SSCS)” is an innovative idea that will serve to solve the following challenging problems regarding smartphones:-

Help the smartphone owner to track his/her lost android smart phone.

Solve the problem of smartphone owner’s credentials being exposed/ leaked.

Solve the problem of losing/transferring contacts when you lose/change your smart phones.

Informing your friends about your new contact after you change your SIM Card.

Remotely control your device.

Find phone by making it ring/vibrate even in silent mode.

Proposed SystemThe idea is to develop an online service and an android smartphone application that works together. The application aims to solve the problem of losing mobile contacts by maintaining its contact details automatically in an online contact base ie Google Spreadsheet. Google Docs API will be used for this.

With this application, each contact on a user’s smartphone is synchronized with it, and each time the user changes his/her mobile number, every synchronized contact will receive a message or an e-mail about user’s updated contact information.

Proposed SystemFrom a security point of view, the main motive of the application is to keep a track of our mobile handset and catch the thief. With this application, the original mobile user can track his/her lost mobile phone. And if a malicious user changes the SIM Card, his mobile number will be sent to the alternate numbers entered by the original user at the time of application installation. A special code messaged from any mobile number will initiate the GPS tracking.

The Siren Feature will help to trace the smartphone despite it being in the silent mode.

Contact Synchronization

Use Case Diagram

FLOW CHARTS – Mobile Safety/Security1) SIM Change Detection

2) GPS Tracking Activation/Deactivation

3) Siren Functionality

3) Inform to Friends

Uniqueness About Our ApplicationThe situation right now is that most smartphone developers are working on better hardware of devices. Due to this, a few basic facilities that every smartphone should have, i.e. anti theft security, contracts synching problem etc., is being overlooked.

Even though, there are many 3rd party applications on the play store which try to provide facilities for contact synchronization, smartphone security. However, they have their limitations too:-

• Not a complete package.• Lack multi-purpose capability. • Storage Issues.

A complete solution all packed in a single application with no hassles is still not available on the Google PlayStore.

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Future ScopeGreat present & marvelous future ahead :•We can have a complete backup of messages, call

history etc. into the Google spreadsheet. •The feature to automatically capture thief’s photo

when he/she logins to the smartphone for the first time.

•The ADB Lock feature. •Wipe Data/Factory Reset Protection can be added

to enhance application’s capability.

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