Controlled privacy in mobile cloud

Mobile devices face restrictions due to limitation of resources like life of battery, capacity of memory, power of processor and communication bandwidth specially during mobility and handover. Mobile based cloud computing is getting greater plea amid mobile users to lessen limitations of resource in mobile devices. The extensive espousal of programmable smart mobile handsets and communicating or exchanging data to Internet remaining in public domain leads to newer privacy and security challenges across enterprises. Smartphones and Tablets are not only storing users' private data but also the private data of the involvers - be it friends, family members, customers, vendors or any other individual. Denial of services, data leakage, account confiscation, exposure to insecure application program interface, isolation of virtual machine, mischievous attacks from insider, losing the key used in encryption give rise to several added threats related to privacy and security. We have attempted to compute a number of threats pertaining to privacy and security and commend best practices and endorsements to counter and prevent occurrence.