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Analyzing Permission Abuses in the Android Operating System

Fazli, Zahra | 2015

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 47899 (19)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Computer Engineering
  6. Advisor(s): Kharrazi, Mehdi
  7. Abstract:
  8. Android phones are widely used now. Convenient user interface and various applications for these devices has played a significant role in their success. The wide usage of these devices besides the nature of their applications lead to collect lots of sensitive information on them. Consequently the protection of this information is very important. The unfamiliarity and the inattention of the most of smart phone users to security issues highlight the importance of the data protection and the privacy. The permission access in Android operating system is static and users should permit applications to access the requested permissions on installing them. Also these programs can use their permissions at any time and without notifying the user. Moreover user doesn’t have any control on permissions usage on his device. These issues facing the user privacy with serious Challenges. In this thesis, a framework is proposed to make capability of taking back some given permissions with the aid of it and also control the permission usage by applications to stop them from abusing permissions without user’s knowledge. Informing users from the risks of installed applications will encourages them to use methods of managing permissions. For this purpose an appropriate application is provided to warn user the invasion of privacy
  9. Keywords:
  10. Security ; Android Operating System ; Permissions ; Permissions Control ; Privacy Invasion

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