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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2016
Applicant:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 12/08 (2009.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04W 88/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 12/08 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01); H04W 88/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are a data protection apparatus and method for a smart device. The data protection apparatus for a smart device includes a detection unit for detecting unauthorized activity in a bootloader of the smart device, based on whether a program for acquiring an administrator privilege has been installed and whether a compressed-command file is present, during a procedure for loading the bootloader, and a data access blocking unit for, when the unauthorized activity is detected, performing an operation of locking the smart device, thus blocking access to data in the smart device.