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AssigneeMcAfee, Inc.
InventorsDmitri Alperovitch, Sven Krasser, Matthew Brinkley
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A system and method in one embodiment includes modules for obtaining a collection of attributes of a mobile application, comparing one or more of the attributes with crowdsourced data associated with other mobile applications to determine one or more trustworthiness indicators, and calculating a reputation score based on the one or more trustworthiness indicators. More specific embodiments include a collection of attributes comprising a manifest, and an application behavior. Other embodiments include determining a suitable action based on the reputation score, such as changing a configuration of the mobile application, deleting the mobile application from a mobile device, generating a security alert on a display of the mobile device, etc.
A method comprising:
An apparatus comprising:
Logic encoded in non-transitory media that includes code for execution and when executed by a processor is operable to perform operations comprising:
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