Cross-platform Access-rights Analysis of Mobile Applications
| Title | Cross-platform Access-rights Analysis of Mobile Applications |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2016 |
| Authors | Squires, Walter, Centonze, Paolina |
| Conference Name | Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems |
| Publisher | ACM |
| Conference Location | New York, NY, USA |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-4503-4178-3 |
| Keywords | android, composability, cross platform, dynamic analysis, ios, mobile applications, permissions, pubcrawl, Resiliency, static analysis, web of trust |
| Abstract | We live in the era of mobile computing. Mobile devices have more sensors and more capabilities than desktop computers. For any computing device that contains sensitive information and accesses the Internet, security is a major concern for both enterprises and end-users. Of the mobile devices commonly in The emphasis of this research focuses on to the ways in which the popular iOS and Android platforms handle permissions in an attempt to discern if there are any identifiable trends on either platform w.r.t. applications being over- or underprivileged. |
| URL | http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2897073.2897717 |
| DOI | 10.1145/2897073.2897717 |
| Citation Key | squires_cross-platform_2016 |