As the Internet has transformed into a critical infrastructure, society has become more
vulnerable to its security flaws. Despite substantial efforts to address many of these …

The rapid developments of the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart mobile devices in recent
years have been dramatically incentivizing the advancement of edge computing. On the one …

Mobile-application fingerprinting of network traffic is valuable for many security solutions as
it provides insights into the apps active on a network. Unfortunately, existing techniques …

We present a new approach to static analysis for security vetting of Android apps and a
general framework called Amandroid. Amandroid determines points-to information for all …

Third-party services form an integral part of the mobile ecosystem: they ease application
development and enable features such as analytics, social network integration, and app …

While many studies have looked at privacy properties of the Android and Google Play app
ecosystem, comparatively much less is known about iOS and the Apple App Store, the most …

Many of today's machine learning (ML) systems are built by reusing an array of, often pre-
trained, primitive models, each fulfilling distinct functionality (eg, feature extraction). The …

Third-party libraries in Android apps have repeatedly been shown to be hazards to the
users' privacy and an amplification of their host apps' attack surface. A particularly …

Third-party libraries play a key role in software development as they can relieve developers
of the heavy burden of re-implementing common functionalities. However, third-party …

Web developers routinely rely on third-party Java-Script libraries such as jQuery to enhance
the functionality of their sites. However, if not properly maintained, such dependencies can …