talk: Personal data at risk? App analytics to the rescue, 11:15 10/23

Wed, 21 Oct 2015 09:01:16 -0400
cybersecurity, news, talks

The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents

Are your personal data at risk?
App analytics to the rescue

Prajit Kumar Das
Ebiquity, CSEE Department, UMBC

11:15am-12:30pm, Friday, 23 October 2015, ITE 231

According to the prominent virus and malware tool Virustotal, the Google Play Store has a few thousand apps from major malware families. Given such a revelation, access control systems for mobile data management have reached a state of critical importance. We propose developing a system that will help us detect pathways along which user data are being stolen from their mobile devices. We use a multi-layered approach including app meta data analysis, understanding code patterns, and detecting and eventually controlling dynamic data flow when such an app is installed on a mobile device. In this presentation we focus on the first part of our work and discuss the merits and flaws of our unsupervised learning mechanism to detect possible malicious behavior from apps in the Google Play Store.

Prajit Das is a PhD student in computer science at UMBC.

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