“Virtual-Physical Perceptual Manipulations”(VPPMs) such as redirected walking and haptics
expand the user's capacity to interact with Virtual Reality (VR) beyond what would ordinarily …

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 has gained its popularity due to its open-source and number of freely available
apps in its official play store. Appropriate functioning of Android apps depends upon the …

Android introduces a new permission model that allows apps to request permissions at
runtime rather than at the installation time since 6.0 (Marshmallow, API level 23). While this …

The Android runtime permission model allows users to grant and revoke permissions at
runtime. To verify the robustness of apps, developers have to test the apps repeatedly under …

With the increasing usage of smartphones in banks, medical services and m-commerce, and
the uploading of applications from unofficial sources, security has become a major concern …

Mobile phones have evolved from feature phones to smartphones with comparable power
as modern desktops. On the other hand, security and privacy have taken a toll and, users …

There have been many incidents in the past, where user's private information, health and
vitals, shared to a mobile app have been disclosed. In this paper, we consider Menstruation …

To prevent unauthorized apps from retrieving the sensitive data, Android framework
enforces a permission based access control. However, it has long been known that, to …

Due to the complexity resulted from the huge code base and the multi-context nature of
Android, inconsistent access control enforcement exists in Android, which can be exploited …