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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Android applications"”.
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Detecting vulnerabilities of broadcast receivers in Android applications
… mobile operating system in the world, Android OS has been part of users' daily life. Unfortunately, the rapid expansion of Android third-markets introduces malware aiming at Android applications at an alarming rate, which poses great threats to its users. Current research about the …
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Tapjacking Threats and Mitigation Techniques for Android Applications
<p>With the increased dependency on web applications through mobile devices, malicious attack techniques have now shifted from traditional web applications running on desktop or laptop (allowing mouse click- based interactions) to mobile applications running on mobile devices (allowing touch-based …
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Security Testing of Permission Re-delegation Vulnerabilities in Android Applications
… is achieved thanks to the several smartphone applications (apps) that are available. One of the most popular smartphone operating systems is Android. As of now, there are more than 3 million apps for Android. The Android platform facilitates reuse of apps' functionalities by allowing an app to …
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Systems for the interconnection of Android applications and automobiles via the OpenXC framework
… is the design and construction of a set of applications that use information from a vehicle to provide a better user experience. We introduce two Android applications that make use of the open-source OpenXC library to gauge driver awareness and to provide a user interface via steering wheel …
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Evaluation of Security and Privacy Flaws of Cross-platform Android App Development Frameworks
… has markedly simplified the process of creating Android applications; however, it has concurrently introduced significant security and privacy concerns. This thesis provides a comprehensive evaluation of the security and privacy vulnerabilities inherent in widely-used cross-platform Android …
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Usable Post-Classification Visualizations for Android Collusion Detection and Inspection
Android malware collusion is a new threat model that occurs when multiple Android apps communicate in order to execute an attack. This threat model threatens all Android users' private information and system resource security. Although recent research has made advances in collusion detection and …
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Building Blocks for Mobile Games : A multiplayer framework for App Inventor for Android
… game-building-framework for the App Inventor for Android platform. The Building Blocks for Mobile Games multiplayer framework includes an App Inventor component and a Game Server running on Google App Engine. The client-side-component packages the complexity of web service calls, data transfer and …
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Android Application Install-time Permission Validation and Run-time Malicious Pattern Detection
The open source structure of Android applications introduces security vulnerabilities that can be readily exploited by third-party applications. We address certain vulnerabilities at both installation and runtime using machine learning. Effective classification techniques with neural networks can …
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Artificial Intelligence for Android Stealth-Attack Detection: A Digital Forensics Approach
Android is the most popular Operating System (OS) for mobile devices worldwide due to its low cost and open-source platform. Various apps for different services have been developed, but the incorrect management of specific data structures and code sections can lead to vulnerabilities, allowing …
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Input division for binary translation
… The goal of the binary translator is to allow Android applications with native code compiled for ARM architecture to run on MIPS-based hardware. The ideal time to translate an Android application is when it is being installed. Therefore, the binary translator must execute on a mobile device …
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Empirical study of Android test generation tools on an industrial app
… tools to automatically generate inputs to test Android applications (or simply apps), researchers recently asked the question “Are we there yet?” (in terms of the practicality of the tools). In particular, researchers conduct an empirical study on existing testing techniques and tools on …
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Group collaboration with App Inventor
… a web-based visual platform for building Android applications with blocks, which enables many programmers to collaborate in real time on the same MIT App Inventor project. I design and implement three collaboration models to evaluate the efficacy of these different collaborative models for …
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Biosignal acquisition and interfacing technique for post stroke rehabilitation
… to produce the extended information and also the Android applications in responding to the hand movement activities in real time. The results obtained from the experiments were presented in various graphical representations which showed the stability of the system in producing the consistence …
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Monitoring and Preventing Data Exfiltration in Android-hosted Unmanned Aircraft System Applications
With the dominance of Android in the smartphone market, malware targeting Android users has increased over time. Android applications are now being used to control unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) making smartphones the storehouse for all the data that is generated by the UAS. This data can be …
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Behaviour-based classification of encryption-type ransomware using system calls
… a rising malware threat in recent years, on the Android operating system. Many state-of-the-art anti-malware solutions have shifted away from static signature-based approaches as the techniques utilised by threat actors have become more advanced. Most newer solutions look towards the use of …
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Component-based modeling for Android application testing
The rising popularity of Android and the component-based structure of its apps have motivated the need for automated model-based testing techniques on Android plat- form. Prior researches have primarily focused on the GUI-based model of Android apps. GUI-based model only includes Activity targeting …
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Design and implementation of robust systems for secure malware detection
… has also appeared on mobile devices, with Android being the most targeted platform. To counteract this phenomenon, a lot of approaches have been developed by the scientific community that attempt to increase the resilience of anti-malware systems. Most of these approaches rely on machine …
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Enhancing Android application security through source code vulnerability mitigation using artificial intelligence: a privacy-preserved, community-driven, federated-learning-based approach.
As technology advances, Android devices and apps are rapidly increasing. It is crucial to adhere to security protocols during app development, especially as many apps lack sufficient safeguards. Despite the use of automated tools for risk mitigation, their ability to detect vulnerabilities is …
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Development techniques for android platform mobile device application
<p>This thesis focuses on Android application development techniques needed to implement a mobile application portal that consists of features used at Eastern Michigan University. Since there is not a single source available to developers that explains such techniques, this thesis represents a …