Our daily lives become more and more dependent upon smartphones due to their increased
capabilities. Smartphones are used in various ways from payment systems to assisting the …

The wide and rapid adoption of Android-based devices in the last years has motivated the
usage of Android apps to support a broad range of daily activities. In that sense, being the …

Android is an operating system based on the Linux kernel. It is the most widely used and
popular operating system among Smartphones and portable devices. Its programmable and …

Android platform adopts permissions to protect sensitive resources from untrusted apps.
However, after permissions are granted by users at install time, apps could use these …

Mobile malware detection has attracted massive research effort in our community. A reliable
and up-to-date malware dataset is critical to evaluate the effectiveness of malware detection …

Today, smart phone's malwares are deceptive enough to spoof itself as a legal mobile
application. The front-end service of Trojans is attractive enough to deceive mobile users …

Although the input validation vulnerabilities play a critical role in web application security,
such vulnerabilities are so far largely neglected in the Android security research community …

Mobile application markets such as the Android Marketplace provide a centralized
showcase of applications that end users can purchase or download for free onto their mobile …

Android is the first mass-produced consumer-market open source mobile platform that
allows developers to easily create applications and users to readily install them. However …

Although there are over 1,900,000 third-party Android apps in the Google Play Store, little is
understood about how their security and privacy characteristics, such as dangerous …