Mobile devices are an integral part of our daily lives. But with their growing functionality and capability comes increased risk to personal privacy and security. At a fundamental level, mobile devices are incredibly hard to secure. Ben Zhao, Professor of Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara, discusses some of the fundamental security and privacy risks in mobile device and recent work in identifying and addressing the problem of “Sybil Devices,” software code that pass themselves as mobile devices to manipulate and attack mobile apps from within. Series: "GRIT Talks" [Science] [Show ID: 31419]