This semester brought about great change to the Android PHA application and frenzied development. It is important to note that Android has a steep learning curve, and it took considerable time to learn the Android SDK and how to create an Android application properly. While Google provides some detailed instructions and tutorials on their developer zone website, complete resources are hard to c...

The Android platform is an open source operating system, which is widely used on Smartphones. Android operating system usage and adaptation is rapidly increasing with a variety of applications. It also, allows developers to freely access and modifies source code. The open nature of the Android platform attracts attackers to do different types of criminal activities. The android users likely to ...

Revealing security vulnerabilities is one of great challenges for the Android ecosystem. Static analysis is the usual approach of the security analysis for computer software. However, it is undirected and time-consuming for the common static analysis methods to analyze the entire Android application systematically from the main entry point. In order to adapt to the event-driven feature of Andro...

First we report on a new threat campaign, underway in Korea, which infected around 20,000 Android users within two months. The campaign attacked mobile users with malicious applications spread via different channels, such as email attachments or SMS spam. A detailed investigation of the Android malware resulted in the identification of a new Android malware family Android/BadAccents. The family...

Recent researches have reported that Android programs are vulnerable to unexpected exceptions. One reason is that the current design of Android platform solely depends on Java exception mechanism, which is unaware of the component-based structure of Android programs. This paper proposes a component-level exception mechanism for programmers to build robust Android programs with. With the mechani...

There’s been much ado about the Android operating system lately. A good bit of the buzz has been the marketing hype and early adopter reviews that inevitably accompany the release of new products. But it’s not this buzz that’s so interesting; it’s the discussion about the open source licensing and copyright issues that Android has generated. Android presents some fascinating lessons and some th...

The Android platform is an open source operating system, which is widely used on Smartphones. Android operating system usage and adaptation is rapidly increasing with a variety of applications. It also, allows developers to freely access and modifies source code. The open nature of the Android platform attracts attackers to do different types of criminal activities. The android users likely to ...

The Android platform is an open source operating system, which is widely used on Smartphones. Android operating system usage and adaptation is rapidly increasing with a variety of applications. It also, allows developers to freely access and modifies source code. The open nature of the Android platform attracts attackers to do different types of criminal activities. The android users likely to ...

The Android platform is an open source operating system, which is widely used on Smartphones. Android operating system usage and adaptation is rapidly increasing with a variety of applications. It also, allows developers to freely access and modifies source code. The open nature of the Android platform attracts attackers to do different types of criminal activities. The android users likely to ...

The complexity and the number of mobile malware are increasing continually as the usage of smartphones continue to rise. The popularity of Android has increased the number of malware that target Android-based smartphones. Developing efficient and effective approaches for Android malware classification is emerging as a new challenge. This paper introduces an effective Android malware classifier ...