TY - BOOK ID - 7759412 TI - Android Application Security : A Semantics and Context-Aware Approach AU - Zhang, Mu. AU - Yin, Heng. PY - 2016 SN - 3319478117 3319478125 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Computer science. KW - Computer communication systems. KW - Computer security. KW - Electrical engineering. KW - Computer Science. KW - Systems and Data Security. KW - Computer Communication Networks. KW - Communications Engineering, Networks. KW - Application software KW - Android (Electronic resource) KW - Security measures. KW - Application computer programs KW - Application computer software KW - Applications software KW - Apps (Computer software) KW - Computer software KW - Android operating system (Electronic resource) KW - Android OS (Electronic resource) KW - Google Android (Electronic resource) KW - Android mobile operating system (Electronic resource) KW - Telecommunication. KW - Electric communication KW - Mass communication KW - Telecom KW - Telecommunication industry KW - Telecommunications KW - Communication KW - Information theory KW - Telecommuting KW - Computer privacy KW - Computer system security KW - Computer systems KW - Computers KW - Cyber security KW - Cybersecurity KW - Electronic digital computers KW - Protection of computer systems KW - Security of computer systems KW - Data protection KW - Security systems KW - Hacking KW - Protection KW - Security measures KW - Electric engineering KW - Engineering KW - Communication systems, Computer KW - Computer communication systems KW - Data networks, Computer KW - ECNs (Electronic communication networks) KW - Electronic communication networks KW - Networks, Computer KW - Teleprocessing networks KW - Data transmission systems KW - Digital communications KW - Electronic systems KW - Information networks KW - Telecommunication KW - Cyberinfrastructure KW - Electronic data processing KW - Network computers KW - Distributed processing UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7759412 AB - This SpringerBrief explains the emerging cyber threats that undermine Android application security. It further explores the opportunity to leverage the cutting-edge semantics and context–aware techniques to defend against such threats, including zero-day Android malware, deep software vulnerabilities, privacy breach and insufficient security warnings in app descriptions. The authors begin by introducing the background of the field, explaining the general operating system, programming features, and security mechanisms. The authors capture the semantic-level behavior of mobile applications and use it to reliably detect malware variants and zero-day malware. Next, they propose an automatic patch generation technique to detect and block dangerous information flow. A bytecode rewriting technique is used to confine privacy leakage. User-awareness, a key factor of security risks, is addressed by automatically translating security-related program semantics into natural language descriptions. Frequent behavior mining is used to discover and compress common semantics. As a result, the produced descriptions are security-sensitive, human-understandable and concise. By covering the background, current threats, and future work in this field, the brief is suitable for both professionals in industry and advanced-level students working in mobile security and applications. It is valuable for researchers, as well. ER -