Exploring Security Mechanisms to Android Device

Android Smartphone devices have gained much popularity in recent years. People are moving from PC/laptop to Smartphone devices. Now a days Smartphone/ tablets are important part of our daily lives since they provide us significant amount of services. Now a days the use of Smartphone services increased significantly because of the connectivity provided by Smartphone like WiFi,GPRS,Blutooth,3G,4G etc. people are using Smartphone devices like PC’s to store personal or confidential data, sending mail , web browsing , social networking , net banking etc. Therefore Smartphone become main attraction of attackers/hackers. In particular android operating system for Smartphone devices. In the following survey paper we survey about security threats to android devices, various types of vulnerabilities and related attacks and security mechanisms or solutions proposed/implemented for android threats.