Researcher at Damballa and Georgia Tech PhD Student
Joined on October 9, 2013
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Hi, my name is Chaz Lever. I’m a PhD student at Georgia Institute of Technology performing research in the areas of network and computer security. In addition, I also work as a security researcher for Damballa.
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Much of the discussion regarding mobile security revolves around the growing "pandemic" of mobile malware. It's not uncommon to see headlines reporting the discovery of large numbers of new malware samples. However, as Google recently pointed out, with quite a bit of data to support them, there's little discussion of real world impact of these discoveries. This raises a number of relevant questions. Is the average user likely to be infected? Where does this malware come from? These are questions that deserve analysis and thoughtful responses. more