Understanding Information Hiding in iOS

2014/11/03 by Luca Caviglione, Caviglione, Luca, Wojciech Mazurczyk +1
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Advanced Malware Detection Techniques #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting #Privacy, Security, and Data Protection #cs.CR

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1411.3000

6 pages, 3 figures

openalex publication_date 2014/11/03 · arxiv created 2014/12/11 · arxiv updated 2014/12/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

The Apple operating system (iOS) has so far proved resistant to information-hiding techniques, which help attackers covertly communicate. However, Siri - a native iOS service that controls iPhones and iPads via voice commands - could change this trend.

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