[HTML][HTML] Toward privacy-preserving personalized recommendation services

C Wang, Y Zheng, J Jiang, K Ren - Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Recommendation systems are crucially important for the delivery of personalized services to
users. With personalized recommendation services, users can enjoy a variety of targeted …

[PDF][PDF] What Mobile Ads Know About Mobile Users.

S Son, D Kim, V Shmatikov - Ndss, 2016 - ndss-symposium.org
We analyze the software stack of popular mobile advertising libraries on Android and
investigate how they protect the users of advertising-supported apps from malicious …

Understanding the evolution of android app vulnerabilities

J Gao, L Li, P Kong, TF Bissyandé… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Android ecosystem today is a growing universe of a few billion devices, hundreds of
millions of users and millions of applications targeting a wide range of activities where …

Target fragmentation in Android apps

P Mutchler, Y Safaei, A Doupé… - 2016 IEEE Security and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Android apps declare a target version of the Android run-time platform. When run on devices
with more recent Android versions, apps are executed in a compatibility mode that attempts …

Not your average app: A large-scale privacy analysis of android browsers

A Pradeep, A Feal, J Gamba, A Rao… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The transparency and privacy behavior of mobile browsers has remained widely unexplored
by the research community. In fact, as opposed to regular Android apps, mobile browsers …

Towards understanding Android system vulnerabilities: techniques and insights

D Wu, D Gao, EKT Cheng, Y Cao, J Jiang… - Proceedings of the 2019 …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
As a common platform for pervasive devices, Android has been targeted by numerous
attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in its apps and the operating system. Compared to app …

On the usability (in) security of in-app browsing interfaces in mobile apps

Z Zhang - Proceedings of the 24th international symposium on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Due to the frequent encountering of web URLs in various application scenarios (eg, chatting
and email reading), many mobile apps build their in-app browsing interfaces (IABIs) to …

Understanding javascript vulnerabilities in large real-world android applications

W Song, Q Huang, J Huang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
JavaScript-related vulnerabilities are becoming a major security threat to hybrid mobile
applications. In this article, we present a systematic study to understand how JavaScript is …

When program analysis meets bytecode search: Targeted and efficient inter-procedural analysis of modern Android apps in BackDroid

D Wu, D Gao, RH Deng, CR KC - 2021 51st Annual IEEE/IFIP …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Widely-used Android static program analysis tools, eg, Amandroid and FlowDroid, perform
the whole-app inter-procedural analysis that is comprehensive but fundamentally difficult to …

Measuring the declared SDK versions and their consistency with API calls in Android apps

D Wu, X Liu, J Xu, D Lo, D Gao - … , WASA 2017, Guilin, China, June 19-21 …, 2017 - Springer
Android has been the most popular smartphone system, with multiple platform versions (eg,
KITKAT and Lollipop) active in the market. To manage the application's compatibility with …