Track: Cyber Security
Abstract
Spam is unwanted content sent electronically to many users often with the sole aim of causing monetary loss or gaining access to the user’s personal information. They can either be sent via email or on mobile phones. The focus in this paper is on intrusion detection of spam Short Message Services (SMS) typically sent over a mobile telephone network. This paper therefore details the development of a mobile-based security tool application using an android studio as the platform with java programming language to detect incoming unsolicited SMSs in mobile phones. The Application (App) termed UJ SMS Antivirus was developed and the functionality was tested and evaluated on android mobile phones. Result shows that the proposed App is user-friendly, easy to use and can successfully filter spam SMS’s.