Winner Of the Best Research Award at An International Conference in The United States A Professor at UoB Reveals Security Vulnerabilities Targeting Smartphones Users Data

Sakhir – University of Bahrain – Mansoor Al-Wanni
15 June 2022
A technical study at the University of Bahrain (UoB) revealed the existence of security vulnerabilities in smart phone internet browsers Google and Opera, as well as Samsung devices.
The research presented by Abdullah Al-Dossary, Research and Teaching Assistant at the College of Information Technology, as part of the requirements of obtaining a PhD in Cyber Security, from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, found that there are three vulnerabilities that endanger user security through electronic fraud, by falsifying websites, or stealing users’ information and data.
The study indicated that one of these vulnerabilities affects some Internet browsers that work with chromium technology, including: Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Opera, and the other vulnerability affects Samsung smart devices, and enables the hacker to access internal users’ files without the user’s permission by downloading and running a program that contains the vulnerability.
Based on the search results, the three companies (Google, Samsung, and Opera) worked to address the security vulnerabilities, and praised the search outcomes. Also, Al-Dossary stated that “Due to the seriousness of these vulnerabilities, they have been registered globally on the CVE Miter website, which is concerned with monitoring cybersecurity vulnerabilities.”.
Al-Dossary explained that these vulnerabilities target millions of users around the world by using popular applications on a daily basis.
Al-Dossary won the Best Research Award during his participation in the research results in the “MadWeb” workshop, as part of the “NDSS” global conference on Network and Distributed Systems Security in the United States, which was held from April 24 to 28, 2022.
It is worth noting that the student Abdullah Al-Dossary is on a PhD scholarship in cybersecurity from the Department of Computer Science at the College of Information Technology, as part of the department’s steps to enhance local expertise in cybersecurity.

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