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An Empirical Study of Mobile Ad Targeting
Theodore Book, Dan S. Wallach
Advertising, long the financial mainstay of the web ecosystem, has become nearly ubiquitous in the world of mobile apps. While ad targeting on the web is fairly well understood, mo…
A Case of Collusion: A Study of the Interface Between Ad Libraries and their Apps
Theodore Book, Dan S. Wallach
A growing concern with advertisement libraries on Android is their ability to exfiltrate personal information from their host applications. While previous work has looked at the li…
Automated generation of web server fingerprints
Theodore Book, Martha Witick, Dan S. Wallach
In this paper, we demonstrate that it is possible to automatically generate fingerprints for various web server types using multifactor Bayesian inference on randomly selected serv…
Longitudinal Analysis of Android Ad Library Permissions
Theodore Book, Adam Pridgen, Dan S. Wallach
This paper investigates changes over time in the behavior of Android ad libraries. Taking a sample of 100,000 apps, we extract and classify the ad libraries. By considering the rel…