DocumentCode
181652
Title
Android applications: Data leaks via advertising libraries
Author
Moonsamy, V. ; Batten, L.
Author_Institution
Sch. of IT, Deakin Univ., Melbourne, VIC, Australia
fYear
2014
fDate
26-29 Oct. 2014
Firstpage
314
Lastpage
317
Abstract
Recent studies have determined that many Android applications in both official and non-official online markets expose details of the users´ smartphones without user consent. In this paper, we explain why such applications leak, how they leak and where the data is leaked to. In order to achieve this, we combine static and dynamic analysis to examine Java classes and application behaviour for a set of popular, clean applications from the Finance and Games categories. We observed that all the applications in our data set which leaked information (10%) had third-party advertising libraries embedded in their respective Java packages.
Keywords
Android (operating system); Java; user interfaces; Android applications; Java classes; Java packages; data leaks; data set; dynamic analysis; finance categories; games categories; smart phones; static analysis; third-party advertising libraries; user consent; Advertising; Androids; Humanoid robots; Java; Libraries; Security; Smart phones;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Information Theory and its Applications (ISITA), 2014 International Symposium on
Conference_Location
Melbourne, VIC
Type
conf
Filename
6979855
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