Smartphones are equipped with a wide variety of sensors, which can pose significant
security and privacy risks if not properly protected. To assess the privacy and security risks of …

Today, adaptive mobile applications use mobile sensing and user tracking, allowing for
adaptation to the users' context and needs. This raises several privacy concerns. Privacy …

Android remains an interesting target to attackers due to its openness. A contribution in the
literature consists of providing similarity measurement such as fuzzy hashing to fight against …

Android security has been built upon a permission-based mechanism which restricts
accesses of third-party Android applications to critical resources on an Android device. The …

Context Mobile applications (apps) have proven their usefulness in enhancing service
provisioning across a multitude of domains that range from smart healthcare, to mobile …

Among all available Mobile OS, Android is an ideal target for attackers due to its huge
popularity. Android provides open-source OS and also provides ability to install third party …

Malicious Android applications can obtain user's private data and silently send it to a server.
Android permissions are currently not sufficient enough to ensure the security of users' …

The proliferation of mobile applications and the subsequent sharing of personal data with
service and application providers have given rise to substantial privacy concerns …

Smartphone users are constantly facing the risks of losing their private information to third‐
party mobile applications. Studies have revealed that the vast majority of users either do not …