Vulnerabilities of android data sharing and malicious application to leaking private information

Taenam Cho; Jae Hyeong Kim; Hyeok Ju Cho; Seung Hyun Seo; Seung-Joo Kim

doi:10.1109/ICUFN.2013.6614773

Vulnerabilities of android data sharing and malicious application to leaking private information

Taenam Cho, Jae Hyeong Kim, Hyeok Ju Cho, Seung Hyun Seo, Seung-Joo Kim

Graduate School of Information Security

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Abstract

Smartphones are not just phones but also portable computers, providing diverse services needed in life including calls, texts, emails, GPS, camera, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth apps. These apps keep and manage diverse intrinsic data as well as sensitive private information such as address books. Smartphones enable swift and easy data exchange via 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi. Thus, personal information stored on Smartphones is prone to leakage. Particularly, ContentProviders provided by Android to share data between apps are susceptible to illegitimate leakage of data. The present study analyzes the vulnerabilities of ContentProviders and implements a malicious app to implicate risks related.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN
Pages	37-42
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUFN.2013.6614773
Publication status	Published - 2013 Dec 1
Event	5th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN 2013 - Da Nang, Viet Nam Duration: 2013 Jul 2 → 2013 Jul 5

Other

Other	5th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN 2013
Country	Viet Nam
City	Da Nang
Period	13/7/2 → 13/7/5

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Keywords

Android
ContentProvider
malicious application
security
smaprtphone

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Computer Science Applications
Hardware and Architecture

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Cho, T., Kim, J. H., Cho, H. J., Seo, S. H., & Kim, S-J. (2013). Vulnerabilities of android data sharing and malicious application to leaking private information. In International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN (pp. 37-42). [6614773] https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUFN.2013.6614773

Cho, T, Kim, JH, Cho, HJ, Seo, SH & Kim, S-J 2013, Vulnerabilities of android data sharing and malicious application to leaking private information. in International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN., 6614773, pp. 37-42, 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN 2013, Da Nang, Viet Nam, 13/7/2. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUFN.2013.6614773

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