Smartphones have become an integral part of our daily lives thanks to numerous reasons.
While benefitting from what they offer, it is critical to be aware of the existence of malware in …

Android allows application developers to use native language (C/C++) to implement a part
or the complete program. Recent research and our own statistics show that native payloads …

Android applications (APPS) are in widespread use and have enriched our life. To ensure
the quality and security of the apps, many approaches have been proposed in recent years …

The ubiquity of smartphones, and their very broad capabilities and usage, make the security
of these devices tremendously important. Unfortunately, despite all progress in security and …

AT commands, originally designed in the early 80s for controlling modems, are still in use in
most modern smartphones to support telephony functions. The role of AT commands in …

With the proliferation of the Android malicious applications, malware becomes more capable
of hiding or confusing its malicious intent through the use of code obfuscation, which has …

The Android operating system is the world's dominant mobile computing platform. To defend
against malicious applications and external attack, Android relies upon a complex …

Modern runtimes render JavaScript code in a secure and isolated environment, but when
they execute binary programs and shared libraries, no isolation guarantees are provided …

Operating systems provide various inter-process communication (IPC) mechanisms.
Software applications typically use IPC for communication between front-end and back-end …

Android integrates an increasing number of features into system services to manage
sensitive resources, such as location, medical and social network information. To prevent …