2 papers
cs.CR2025
Your Signal, Their Data: An Empirical Privacy Analysis of Wireless-scanning SDKs in Android
Aniketh Girish, Joel Reardon, Juan Tapiador +2
Mobile apps frequently use Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and WiFi scanning permissions to discover nearby devices like peripherals and connect to WiFi Access Points (APs). However, wi…
cs.CR2024
The Medium is the Message: How Secure Messaging Apps Leak Sensitive Data to Push Notification Services
Nikita Samarin, Alex Sanchez, Trinity Chung +5
Like most modern software, secure messaging apps rely on third-party components to implement important app functionality. Although this practice reduces engineering costs, it also…