With the Android Privacy Sandbox, Google is introducing a new technology designed to improve the privacy of Android device users. […]
Category: IT Security
Evaluation of Secure-Multi-Party-Computation-Frameworks for the Web Browser
Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) is now a practical privacy-preserving cryptographic building block. With the help of MPC, numerous data analyses […]
Potential Covert Channel Through Kernel Samepage Merging on Android
Kernel Samepage Merging (KSM) is a mechanism in the Linux kernel that allows identical pages in memory to be shared […]
Influence of changes to the runtime environment on Android applications
The programming interface of Android offers a variety of features and information sources to create applications. However, these information sources […]
Evaluation of MPC’s State of the Art
Data holds the enormous potential to learn a lot from it and thus improve practically all areas of life. Especially […]
State of the Art Juice Jacking Attacks and Countermeasures for Mobile Devices
Juice Jacking describes a family of attacks on mobile device that utilise a manipulated charging cable for extracting data or […]
Analysis of the Android Health Connect Programming Interface
A large amount of sensitive data is typically stored on smartphones. In combination with wearables and other smart diagnostic devices, […]
Identity Recovery in Case of Device Loss
The increasing prevalence of digital identities and cryptographic key materials on various devices poses a high security risk. If a […]
Reducing the Fingerprintability of Android Smartphones
This report introduces a method which makes it possible to reduce the fingerprintability of Android smartphones. This involves changing information […]
Detection of emulators in malware analysis on Android
To prevent malware from spreading, applications are examined before they are published in app stores. Dynamic analysis, in which the […]