Season 2 · Episode 53
Android device eavesdropping investigation.
Research Saturday · N2K Networks
September 15, 201820m 8s
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Show Notes
A team of researchers from Northeastern University and UC Santa Barbara examined over 17,000 Android apps, and revealed a number of alarming privacy risks.
Elleen Pan and Christo Wilson were members of the research team, and they join us to share what they found.
The research is titled Panoptispy: Characterizing Audio and Video Exfiltration from Android Applications. It can be found here:
https://recon.meddle.mobi/papers/panoptispy18pets.pdf
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