What is the App Genome project?
Whether the customer has an I-Phone or an Android device, security has always been an issue. We are all well aware of the hazards of accessing the web, which is forever under attack by advertisers, spammers, hackers and malicious code juicers. It is natural to ask the same questions about a tiny computer that accesses the web and that downloads so much material from our computers.
Smart phone owners have a wide array of security softwares to download for protecting their smart phones. Many offer multiple features, such as phone finding from the home computer, lock and wipe functions for killing important data on stolen phones, and scanning web content and applications for malware, spyware and other problems.
The App Genome project was a security survey of the I-phone and Android applications markets that was conducted by Lookout, a prominent smart phone security firm. The project was revealed at the 2010 Black Hat Security Conference as a program for scanning and mapping smartphone applications.