Third-party libraries (TPLs) have been widely used in mobile apps, which play an essential
part in the entire Android ecosystem. However, TPL is a double-edged sword. On the one …

Context: Mobile applications (apps) have become deeply personal, constantly demanding
access to privacy-sensitive information in exchange for more personalized user …

Recent years have witnessed the sharp increase of malicious apps that steal users' personal
information. To address users' concerns about privacy risks, more and more apps are …

Since more than 96 percent of mobile malware targets the Android platform, various
techniques based on static code analysis or dynamic behavior analysis have been …

Android utilizes a security mechanism that requires apps to request permission for
accessing sensitive user data, eg, contacts and SMSs, or certain system features, eg …

For performance and compatibility reasons, developers tend to use native code in their
applications (or simply apps). This makes a bidirectional data flow through multiple contexts …

When interacting with user interfaces, do users always get what they expect? For each user
interface element in thousands of Android apps, we extracted the Android APIs they invoke …

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 …

With the unprecedented convenience brought by Apps on mobile devices, we are facing
severe security attacks and privacy leakage caused by them since they may stealthily …

An important consideration in software-defined networks (SDNs), is that one SDN
application, through a bug or API misuse, can break an entire SDN. While previous works …