HTML5-based mobile applications are becoming more and more popular because they can run on different platforms. Several newly introduced mobile OS natively support HTML5based applications. For those that do not provide native support, such as Android, iOS, and Windows Phone, developers can develop HTML5-based applications using middlewares, such as PhoneGap [17]. In these platforms, programs ar...

Android has become the most popular operating system for mobile devices, which makes it a prominent target for malicious software. The security concept of Android is based on app isolation and access control for critical system resources. However, users can only review and accept permission requests at install time, or else they cannot install an app at all. Android neither supports permission ...

Android and iOS devices are leading the mobile device market. While various user experiences have been reported from the general user community about their differences, such as battery lifetime, display, and touchpad control, few in-depth reports can be found about their comparative performance when receiving the increasingly popular Internet streaming services. Today, video traffic starts to d...

The number of Android malware apps are increasing very quickly. Simply detecting and removing malware apps is insufficient, since they can damage or alter other files, data, or settings; install additional applications; etc. To determine such behavior, a security engineer can significantly benefit from identifying the specific family to which an Android malware belongs. Techniques for detecting...

PScout: Analyzing the Android Permission Specification Kathy Wain Yee Au Master of Applied Science Graduate Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto 2012 Modern smartphone operating systems (OSs) have been developed with a greater emphasis on security and protecting privacy. One of the security mechanisms these systems use is permission system. We perform an analy...

Android malware has been on the rise in recent years due to the increasing popularity of Android and the proliferation of third party application markets. Emerging Android malware families are increasingly adopting sophisticated detection avoidance techniques and this calls for more effective approaches for Android malware detection. Hence, in this paper we present and evaluate an n-gram opcode...

The prevalence of mobile platforms, the large market share of Android, plus the openness of the Android Market makes it a hot target for malware attacks. Once a malware sample has been identified, it is critical to quickly reveal its malicious intent and inner workings. In this paper we present DroidScope, an Android analysis platform that continues the tradition of virtualization-based malware...

In the development of humanoids, both the appearance and behavior of the robots are significant issues. However, designing the robot’s appearance, especially to give it a humanoid one, was always a role of industrial designers. To tackle the problem of appearance and behavior, two approaches are necessary: one from robotics and the other from cognitive science. The approach from robotics tries ...

The spontaneous mimicry of others' emotional facial expressions constitutes a rudimentary form of empathy and facilitates social understanding. Here, we show that human participants spontaneously match facial expressions of an android physically present in the room with them. This mimicry occurs even though these participants find the android unsettling and are fully aware that it lacks intenti...

Rapid increase of Smartphone users worldwide has moved developers attention towards Mobile platform to create applications for Smartphone. Android is one such major mobile platform and also an open source operating system. With the rapid increase in the android applications some undesirable apps begin to show up. Two kinds of such apps are pirated and malware. This focuses on piracy of applicat...