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Android applications: data leaks via advertising libraries
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posted on 2014-10-16, 00:00 authored by Veelasha Moonsamy, Lynn BattenLynn BattenRecent 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.
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Information Theory and its Applications. Symposium (2014 : Melbourne, Victoria)Pagination
314 - 317Publisher
IEEELocation
Melbourne, VictoriaPlace of publication
Piscataway, N.J.Start date
2014-10-26End date
2014-10-29ISBN-13
9784885522925Language
engPublication classification
E Conference publication; E1 Full written paper - refereedCopyright notice
2014, IEICEEditor/Contributor(s)
[Unknown]Title of proceedings
ISITA 2014 : Proceedings of International Symposium on Information Theory and Its ApplicationsUsage metrics
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