Title
DAPA: Degradation-Aware Privacy Analysis of Android Apps.
Abstract
When installing or executing an app on a smartphone, we grant it access to part of our (possibly confidential) data stored in the device. Traditional information-flow analyses aim to detect whether such information is leaked by the app to the external (untrusted) environment. The static analyser we present in this paper goes one step further. Its aim is to trace not only if information is possibly leaked (as this is almost always the case), but also how relevant such a leakage might become, as an under- and over-approximation of the actual degree of values degradation. The analysis captures both explicit dependences and implicit dependences, in an integrated approach. The analyser is built within the Abstract Interpretation framework on top of our previous work on data-centric semantics for verification of privacy policy compliance by mobile applications. Results of the experimental analysis on significant samples of the DroidBench library are also discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/978-3-319-46598-2_3
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Field
DocType
Volume
Analyser,Internet privacy,Android (operating system),Confidentiality,Abstract interpretation,Computer security,Computer science,Privacy policy,Installation,Taint checking,Semantics
Conference
9871
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
5
0.45
References 
Authors
17
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gianluca Barbon181.52
Agostino Cortesi279166.19
Pietro Ferrara315820.79
Enrico Steffinlongo4111.97