Recent years have seen a global adoption of smart mobile devices, particularly those based
on Android. However, Android's widespread adoption is marred with increasingly rampant …

Third-party libraries (TPLs) have been widely used in mobile apps, which play an essential
part in the entire Android ecosystem. However, TPL is a double-edged sword. On the one …

Third-party libraries on Android have been shown to be security and privacy hazards by
adding security vulnerabilities to their host apps or by misusing inherited access rights …

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 …

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

Targeted advertising has transformed the marketing landscape for a wide variety of
businesses, by creating new opportunities for advertisers to reach prospective customers by …

Advertising is a critical part of the Android ecosystem---many applications use one or more
advertising services as a source of revenue. To use these services, developers must bundle …

Millions of users worldwide resort to mobile VPN clients to either circumvent censorship or to
access geo-blocked content, and more generally for privacy and security purposes. In …

In this paper, we systematically study two vulnerabilities and their presence in existing
Android applications (or “apps”). These two vulnerabilities are rooted in an unprotected …

Mobile Health (mHealth) applications are readily accessible to the average user of mobile
devices, and despite the potential of mHealth applications to improve the availability …