Dear Colleagues,

The use of smartphones and mobile devices has been an indispensable part of our everyday life and work. With personal financial and medical information and job-related data being processed on mobile systems, mobile networks, and mobile cloud, it is critically important that the development and advancement of secure mobile operating systems, secure mobile cloud and applications, secure mobile devices and cellular networks keep up with the ever-growing smartphone usage.

The scope of this Special Issue encompasses the security, privacy, and digital forensics of mobile systems, mobile networks and mobile cloud, including but not limited to Android, iOS and Windows Mobile operating systems, mobile device, systems and applications, the modelling, design and testing of mobile system, networks and cloud with security and privacy in mind, secure mobile methodologies and algorithms, and secure mobile applications as well as cellular networks. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following subject categories:

Android, iOS, and Windows Mobile security and privacy
Digital forensics on mobile operating systems, applications and smartphones
Secure mobile application development
Smartphone device/hardware security
Mobile and cloud application security and digital forensics
Mobile and cloud user authentication and authorization
Multi-factor mobile and cloud authentication
Mobile and cloud user privacy
Intrusion detection and recovery on mobile OS, applications, smartphones and cloud
4G and 5G security
Modeling, design and testing secure mobile cloud
Secure algorithms and methodologies for mobile cloud
Secure and efficient private mobile cloud
Secure mobile cloud application design and development
Vulnerability detection and remediation of mobile cloud
Mobile and cloud device and applications management

For submissions and more information about the special issue, please visit http://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/mobisec.

Dr. Lei Chen
Dr. Wenjia Li
Dr. Rami Haddad
Guest Editors