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View article: Mules and Permission Laundering in Android: Dissecting Custom Permissions in the Wild
Mules and Permission Laundering in Android: Dissecting Custom Permissions in the Wild Open
Android implements a permission system to regulate apps' access to system resources and sensitive user data. One salient feature of this system is its extensibility: apps can define their own custom permissions to expose features and data …
View article: Not Your Average App: A Large-scale Privacy Analysis of Android Browsers
Not Your Average App: A Large-scale Privacy Analysis of Android Browsers Open
The transparency and privacy behavior of mobile browsers has remained widely unexplored by the research community. In fact, as opposed to regular Android apps, mobile browsers may present contradicting privacy behaviors. On the one end, th…
View article: Attribution Signals from Five Android Markets
Attribution Signals from Five Android Markets Open
Attribution signals extracted from five major Android markets (Google Play, Baidu, APKMonk, Tencent, APKMirror). The data has been collected by a crawler, deployed at difference instances between December 2019 and November 2021. The data s…
View article: Attribution Signals from Five Android Markets
Attribution Signals from Five Android Markets Open
Attribution signals extracted from five major Android markets (Google Play, Baidu, APKMonk, Tencent, APKMirror). The data has been collected by a crawler, deployed at difference instances between December 2019 and November 2021. The data s…
View article: Not Your Average App: A Large-scale Privacy Analysis of Android Browsers
Not Your Average App: A Large-scale Privacy Analysis of Android Browsers Open
The transparency and privacy behavior of mobile browsers has remained widely unexplored by the research community. In fact, as opposed to regular Android apps, mobile browsers may present contradicting privacy behaviors. On the one end, th…
View article: Mixed Signals: Analyzing Software Attribution Challenges in the Android Ecosystem
Mixed Signals: Analyzing Software Attribution Challenges in the Android Ecosystem Open
The ability to identify the author responsible for a given software object is critical for many research studies and for enhancing software transparency and accountability. However, as opposed to other application markets like iOS, attribu…
View article: Mis-shapes, Mistakes, Misfits
Mis-shapes, Mistakes, Misfits Open
Domain classification services have applications in multiple areas,including cybersecurity, content blocking, and targeted advertising.Yet, these services are often a black box in terms of their methodology to classifying domains, which ma…
View article: An Analysis of Pre-installed Android Software
An Analysis of Pre-installed Android Software Open
The open-source nature of the Android OS makes it possible for manufacturers to ship custom versions of the OS along with a set of pre-installed apps, often for product differentiation. Some device vendors have recently come under scrutiny…
View article: An Analysis of Pre-installed Android Software
An Analysis of Pre-installed Android Software Open
The Android Open Source Project (AOSP) was first released by Google in 2008 and
\nhas since become the most used operating system [Andaf]. Thanks to the openness
\nof its source code, any smartphone vendor or original equipment manufacture…
View article: A Long Way to the Top
A Long Way to the Top Open
A broad range of research areas including Internet measurement, privacy, and\nnetwork security rely on lists of target domains to be analysed; researchers\nmake use of target lists for reasons of necessity or efficiency. The popular\nAlexa…