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How We Found These Vulnerabilities in Android Applications

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With the rapid growth of application markets, many developers now spend their time and money to develop new smartphone applications, bringing ever more intelligent applications to smartphone users. However, the rapid development process of applications without full testing made them neglect the security of the applications. In this paper, I took UC Browser and Mobile QQ as examples to show some vulnerabilities.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

    Bin Ma

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  1. CAS, Institute of Information Engineering, Beijing, China

    Jin Tian

  2. Institute of Information Engineering, Beijing, China

    Jiwu Jing

  3. IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York, New York, USA

    Mudhakar Srivatsa

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Ma, B. (2015). How We Found These Vulnerabilities in Android Applications. In: Tian, J., Jing, J., Srivatsa, M. (eds) International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks. SecureComm 2014. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 153. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23802-9_32

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