Third party tracking allows companies to identify users and track their behaviour across
multiple digital services. This paper presents an empirical study of the prevalence of third …

Smartphone users increasingly download and install third-party applications from official
application repositories. Attackers may use this centralized application delivery architecture …

Modern smartphones that implement permission-based security mechanisms suffer from
attacks by colluding applications. Users are not made aware of possible implications of …

The industry for children's apps is thriving at the cost of children's privacy: these apps
routinely disclose children's data to multiple data trackers and ad networks. As children …

Under most widely-used security mechanisms the programs users run possess more
authority than is strictly necessary, with each process typically capable of utilising all of the …

Third-party networks collect vast amounts of data about users via websites and mobile
applications. Consolidations among tracker companies can significantly increase their …

Purpose As mobile malware and virus are rapidly increasing in frequency and
sophistication, mobile social media has recently become a very popular attack vector. The …

We show that the way in which permissionbased mechanisms are used on today's mobile
platforms enables attacks by colluding applications that communicate over overt and covert …

Secure Software Installation on Smartphones Page 1 Secure Software Installation on
Smartphones David Barrera, PC van Oorschot Carleton University November 3, 2010 1 …

Abstract “Tracking” is the collection of data about an individual's activity across multiple
distinct contexts and the retention, use, or sharing of data derived from that activity outside …