Permission based Android security: Issues and countermeasures

• Main Authors: FANG, Zheran, HAN, Weili, LI, Yingjiu
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Android security; Permission based security; Access control; Granularity of access control; Policy administration; Over-claim of permission; Permission escalation attack; Computer Sciences; Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2531; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3531/viewcontent/PermissionBasedAndroidSecurity_2014.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Android security has been a hot spot recently in both academic research and public concerns due to numerous instances of security attacks and privacy leakage on Android platform. Android security has been built upon a permission based mechanism which restricts accesses of third-party Android applica...