Conference Proceeding Published 2017

A look into the information your smartphone leaks

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Dr. Timothy Ascus Chadza

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Electrical Engineering

14 total publications

Timothy received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (MUBAS), formerly the University of Malawi -Polytechnic, in 2005. Later, he did an Advanced Postgraduate (Equivalent to M.Tech. de...

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Primary Author Dr. Timothy Ascus Chadza

Co-Authors Dr. Francisco J. Aparicio-Navarro, Dr. Konstantinos G. Kyriakopoulos, Prof. Jonathon A. Chambers, Dr. Timothy Ascus Chadza

Abstract

Some smartphone applications (apps) pose a risk to
users’ personal information. Events of apps leaking information
stored in smartphones illustrate the danger that they present. In
this paper, we investigate the amount of personal information
leaked during the installation and use of apps when accessing the
Internet. We have opted for the implementation of a Man-in-the-
Middle proxy to intercept the network traffic generated by 20
popular free apps installed on different smartphones of distinctive
vendors. This work describes the technical considerations and
requirements for the deployment of the monitoring WiFi network
employed during the conducted experiments. The presented
results show that numerous mobile and personal unique
identifiers, along with personal information are leaked by several
of the evaluated apps, commonly during the installation process.

Year of Publication 2017

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Proceedings Title International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC)

Page Numbers 1-6

Conference Dates 16-18 May 2017

Conference Place Marrakech