Abstract: in current years, there has been quick growth in mobile gadgets such as smartphones, and smartphone market has established with plenty of applications. In particular, there are several applications that are “free” to the user, but depend on advertisement services for their expenses. Such applications include an advertisement module - a reference library provided by the advertisement service - that can assemble a user’s sensitive information and transfer it across the network. Such data is used for some accepted advertisements, and user performance statistics. Users receive this business model, but in most situations the applications do not require the user’s acknowledgment in order to transfer sensitive information. Hence, these applications’ behavior becomes an incursion of privacy. In our investigation of 1,189 Android applications’ network traffic and permissions, 93.01% of the applications we studied connected to multiple destinations whenever we are using the network.
Keywords: Security, Smartphone, Privacy
Title: Detecting and Awarding Sensitive Information: Leakage in Android Application
Author: UJWALA S GANGASHETTI, SANDHYA A, Dr. B. R. PRASAD BABU
International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Research
ISSN 2348-1196 (print), ISSN 2348-120X (online)
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