Quantifying smartphone vulnerabilities

Nowadays, smartphones are an integral part of our lives. They provide a wide variety of functionality through their applications (apps), whether it's the latest news, social connectivity, market updates or picture editing and many more similar things. People rely on their smartphones for all these small tasks. These applications often have sensitive data/information about the users. As a result, smartphones are hot target for the hackers these days. Due to this, the number of vulnerabilities in smartphones is on a rise too. As soon as a new version of a smartphone operating system is launched, hackers look to exploit that and new vulnerabilities are discovered. In this paper we analyze the various versions of Google's Android and Apple's iOS operating systems and the vulnerabilities present in them.