Detecting and blocking leaky Android apps
Friday, May 22, 2015 - 09:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Nine times out of ten, that Android app is connecting to multiple internet destinations without your knowledge, more than half of them require access to the sensitive, personal information on your mobile device in order to function and more than one in five data "packets" these apps send contains some of that sensitive information. That's the conclusion of Japanese researchers writing this month in the International Journal of Space-Based and Situated Computing.