The openness and extensibility of Android have made it a popular platform for mobile
devices and a strong candidate to drive the Internet-of-Things. Unfortunately, these …

Leakage of user location and traffic patterns is a serious security threat with significant
implications on privacy as reported by recent surveys and identified by the US Congress …

In parallel with the meteoric rise of mobile software, we are witnessing an alarming
escalation in the number and sophistication of the security threats targeted at mobile …

Security isolation is a foundation of computing systems that enables resilience to different
forms of attacks. This article seeks to understand existing security isolation techniques by …

In contrast to the Android application layer, Android's application framework's internals and
their influence on the platform security and user privacy are still largely a black box for us. In …

Android security and privacy research has boomed in recent years, far outstrip**
investigations of other appified platforms. However, despite this attention, research efforts …

It's an essential step to understand malware's behaviors for develo** effective solutions.
Though a number of systems have been proposed to analyze Android malware, they have …

Reliable on-off control of peripherals on smart devices is a key to security and privacy in
many scenarios. Journalists want to reliably turn off radios to protect their sources during …

With the introduction of Android 5 Lollipop, the Android Runtime (ART) superseded the
Dalvik Virtual Machine (DVM) by introducing ahead-of-time compilation and native …

Apple Wireless Direct Link (AWDL) is a key protocol in Apple's ecosystem used by over one
billion iOS and macOS devices for device-to-device communications. AWDL is a proprietary …