The rapid developments of the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart mobile devices in recent
years have been dramatically incentivizing the advancement of edge computing. On the one …

App-in-app is a new and trending mobile computing paradigm in which native app-like
software modules, called sub-apps, are hosted by popular mobile apps such as Wechat …

Context: The growing focus on ethics within SE, primarily due to the significant reliance of
individuals' lives on software and the consequential social and ethical considerations that …

Users' growing concerns about online privacy have led to increased platform support for
transparency and consent in the web and mobile ecosystems. To that end, Android recently …

Android's application framework plays a crucial part in protecting users' private data and the
system integrity. Consequently, it has been the target of various prior works that analyzed its …

Differences between Android versions affect not only application developers but also make
the task of securing Android harder, as it is not easy to keep track of updates. In this paper …

One of the major Android security mechanisms for enforcing restrictions on the core facilities
of a device that an app can access is permission control. However, there is an enormous …

OAuth protocols have been widely adopted to simplify user authentication and service
authorization for third-party applications. However, little effort has been devoted to …

Security of Android devices is now paramount, given their wide adoption among consumers.
As researchers develop tools for statically or dynamically detecting suspicious apps …

Mobile phones enable the collection of a wealth of private information, from unique
identifiers (eg, email addresses), to a user's location, to their text messages. This information …