Although Android's permission system is intended to allow users to make informed decisions
about their privacy, it is often ineffective at conveying meaningful, useful information on how …

It is a straightforward idea to detect a harmful mobile application based on the permissions it
requests. This study attempts to explore the possibility of detecting malicious applications in …

Android security and privacy research has boomed in recent years, far outstripping
investigations of other appified platforms. However, despite this attention, research efforts …

Purpose–This paper aims to report on the information security behaviors of smartphone
users in an affluent economy of the Middle East. Design/methodology/approach–A model …

Android is a fast evolving system, with new updates coming out one after another. These
updates often completely overhaul a running system, replacing and adding tens of …

Smartphones became many people's primary means of communication. Emerging
applications such as Near Field Communication require new levels of security that cannot …

In the permission-based security model (used eg in Android and Blackberry), applications
can be granted more permissions than they actually need, what we call a “permission gap” …

Botnets have traditionally been seen as a threat to personal computers; however, the recent
shift to mobile platforms resulted in a wave of new botnets. Due to its popularity, Android …

In this paper we propose a unified action recognition framework fusing local descriptors and
holistic features. The motivation is that the local descriptors and holistic features emphasize …