Ensuring Privacy in the Android OS by Hooking Methods in Its API

Authors

  • Andrei Stefan Constantinescu IT&C Security Master Department of Economic Informatics and Cybernetics The Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Keywords:

Security, Privacy, Application, Android, Xposed, Hooking Functions

Abstract

The paper presents a mean to ensure security and privacy on Android devices available at the moment by applying a need to know principle for information that the installed applications can access. The presented method requires root access and an Open Source framework that allows hooking functions in the Android system, called Xposed, to be installed.

References

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Zigurd Mednieks, L. Dornin, G. B. Meike, M. Nakamura, Programming Android, published by O'Reilly Media, 2012;

Jeff Six, Application Security for the Android Platform: Processes, Permissions, and Other Safeguards, pages 21-51, published by O'Reilly Media, 2011;

Nikolay Elenkov, Android Security Internals: An In-Depth Guide to Android's Security Architecture, pages 13-37, published by No Starch Press, 2014;

Anmol Misra, A. Dubey, Android Security: Attacks and Defenses, pages 3-29, published by CRC Press, 2013;

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***, Security Overview, https://source.android.com/devices/tech/security/overview/index.html;

***, Xposed Framework | Cydia Substrate, http://www.cydiasubstrate.com/id/34058d37-3198-414f-a696-73e97e0a80db/;

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***, Xposed Development Tutorial, https://github.com/rovo89/XposedBridge/wiki/Development-tutorial;

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Published

2015-09-30

How to Cite

Constantinescu, A. S. (2015). Ensuring Privacy in the Android OS by Hooking Methods in Its API. Journal of Mobile, Embedded and Distributed Systems, 7(3), 107-112. Retrieved from http://jmeds.eu/index.php/jmeds/article/view/Ensuring_Privacy_in_the_Android_OS_by_Hooking_Methods