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 …

Mobile operating systems like Android failed to provide sufficient protection on personal
data, and privacy leakage becomes a major concern. To understand the security risks and …

With the digital breakthrough, smart phones have become very essential component for
many routine tasks like shop**, paying bills, transferring money, instant messaging …

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 …

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 …

The rapid growth of Android smart phones and abundant applications (Apps), a new security
solution for distributed computing and mobile communications, has prompted many …

Obfuscation is used in malware to hide malicious activity from manual or automatic program
analysis. On the Android platform, malware has had a history of using obfuscation …

Android's app ecosystem relies heavily on third-party libraries as they facilitate code
development and provide a steady stream of revenue for developers. However, while …

Millions of users nowadays rely on their smartphones to process sensitive data through apps
from various vendors and sources. Therefore, it is vital to assess these apps for security …

We present an arms race between rooting detection and rooting evasion. We investigate
different methods to detect rooted device at both Java and native level and evaluate the …