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

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 …

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 …

These days cyber-attack is a serious criminal offense and it is a hot debated issue moreover.
A man-in-the-middle-attack is a kind of cyberattack where an unapproved outsider enters …

Vulnerabilities in Android code--including but not limited to insecure data storage,
unprotected inter-component communication, broken TLS implementations, and violations of …

While dynamic malware analysis methods generally provide better precision than purely
static methods, they have the key drawback that they can only detect malicious behavior if it …

China is one of the largest Android markets in the world. As Chinese users cannot access
Google Play to buy and install Android apps, a number of independent app stores have …

With the thriving of the mobile app markets, third-party libraries are pervasively integrated in
the Android applications. Third-party libraries provide functionality such as advertisements …

Embedded devices are increasingly ubiquitous in our society. Firmware updates are one of
the primary mechanisms to mitigate vulnerabilities in embedded systems. However, the …