As smartphones have become indispensable personal devices, the number of smartphone
users has increased dramatically over the last decade. These personal devices, which are …

As the Internet has transformed into a critical infrastructure, society has become more
vulnerable to its security flaws. Despite substantial efforts to address many of these …

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 …

Tracking is a highly privacy-invasive data collection practice that has been ubiquitous in
mobile apps for many years due to its role in supporting advertising-based revenue models …

VirusTotal provides malware labels from a large set of anti-malware engines, and is heavily
used by researchers for malware annotation and system evaluation. Since different engines …

While many studies have looked at privacy properties of the Android and Google Play app
ecosystem, comparatively much less is known about iOS and the Apple App Store, the most …

Online scan engines such as VirusTotal are heavily used by researchers to label malicious
URLs and files. Unfortunately, it is not well understood how the labels are generated and …

As the indispensable trading platforms of the ecosystem, hundreds of cryptocurrency
exchanges are emerging to facilitate the trading of digital assets. While, it also attracts the …

In this study, a framework for Android malware detection based on permissions is presented.
This framework uses multiple linear regression methods. Application permissions, which are …

The open-source nature of the Android OS makes it possible for manufacturers to ship
custom versions of the OS along with a set of pre-installed apps, often for product …