Objectives To investigate whether and what user data are collected by health related mobile
applications (mHealth apps), to characterise the privacy conduct of all the available mHealth …

In recent years there has been a noticeable shift in attention from those who use agile
software development toward lean software development, often labelled as a shift “from …

Today's smartphones are equipped with a large number of powerful value-added sensors
and features, such as a low-power Bluetooth sensor, powerful embedded sensors, such as …

The Web is a tangled mass of interconnected services, where websites import a range of
external resources from various third-party domains. The latter can also load resources …

App reviews in app stores offer valuable insights into many activities in the software
ecosystem, eg, software development, app marketing, security. As app reviews are known to …

Objective We conduct a first large-scale analysis of mobile health (mHealth) apps available
on Google Play with the goal of providing a comprehensive view of mHealth apps' security …

Although advertising is a popular strategy for mobile app monetization, it is often desirable to
block ads in order to improve usability, performance, privacy, and security. In this paper, we …

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With the number of new mobile malware instances increasing by over 50\% annually since
2012 [24], malware embedding in mobile apps is arguably one of the most serious security …

Smartphone applications that listen for network connections introduce significant security
and privacy threats for users. In this paper, we focus on vetting and analyzing the security of …