ABSTRACT
Large levels of software now exist in mobile and embedded devices such as smart phones, airplanes, factories, medical devices, robots, and many other consumer products. e communication between these devices and the outside world gives rise to security concerns. Until recently, hackers and the security world did not worry too much about such devices. ey were too few, not well connected to the outside world, and did not have much interesting information. Now, all of that has changed. Security hacking can cause substantial nancial and human losses as well as loss of integrity and system functionality. Security constitutes a risk for many mobile-embedded systems; therefore, testers of at-risk systems should focus on security testing with a bit more intensity than information technology (IT) and personal computer (PC) systems since embedded and mobile devices appear poised to be used in many ways, which malicious people will likely exploit. Many security attacks are common to the existing security testing world, but here I introduce a few more.
