Smartphones have become pervasive due to the availability of office applications, Internet,
games, vehicle guidance using location-based services apart from conventional services …

Context Static analysis exploits techniques that parse program source code or bytecode,
often traversing program paths to check some program properties. Static analysis …

With the widespread use of smartphones, the number of malware has been increasing
exponentially. Among smart devices, android devices are the most targeted devices by …

Recently, several competing smart home programming frameworks that support third party
app development have emerged. These frameworks provide tangible benefits to users, but …

Today's smartphones are a ubiquitous source of private and confidential data. At the same
time, smartphone users are plagued by carelessly programmed apps that leak important …

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 …

Shake Them All is a popular" Wallpaper" application exceeding millions of downloads on
Google Play. At installation, this application is given permission to (1) access the Internet (for …

Android security incidents occurred frequently in recent years. To improve the accuracy and
efficiency of large-scale Android malware detection, in this work, we propose a hybrid model …

As Android has become increasingly popular, so has malware targeting it, thus motivating
the research community to propose different detection techniques. However, the constant …

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 …