Using DidFail to Analyze Flow of Sensitive Information in Sets of Android Apps

June 24, 2015 • Presentation

By

William Klieber, Lori Flynn, Amar S. Bhosale (No Affiliation), Limin Jia (Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering), and Lujo Bauer (Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)

In this presentation, the authors describe how to use DidFail, a tool that detects potential leaks of sensitive information in Android apps.

Publisher

Software Engineering Institute

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Abstract

In this presentation, the authors give an updated overview of the DidFail analyzer, plus describe how to install and run it, and provide detail about information in key output files. DidFail is a tool that detects potential leaks of sensitive information in sets of Android apps.