Status of Poster

Hello,

Our poster for the Tapia Conference is essentially complete. Dr. Zheng will review it and then we shall proceed to print it. Hopefully the specialized printer in charge of that mighty task will be as interesting as it seems (an oversized printer!) Nonetheless, again, Danny is leaving for the conference on Thursday.

- Eunice.

Update

Hello,

This will be the second post of the day. Last week our team met on Friday to go over smaller details of the user study, which will be our second step, and to discuss the contents of our research poster, which is still a work in progress. Also, our meetings now occur every other week.

Since the scripts are completed, Danny and I have focused on completing the poster for the Tapia conference. He is leaving on Thursday morning, and I believe that the conference takes place on Friday. Nonetheless, tomorrow we will get to print it and possibly show you.

- Eunice.

Scripts in Action

Hello,

Here we go, screenshots of the scripts in action! The following three images show the app's overall security risk score.

See the permissions tab? It shows which permissions are requested by the application.

If we click on it, we get the following

CSS for a Script

Hello,

Danny and I have been working on multiple scripts that change the appearance of the permissions tab within Google Play. For example, if we look at this app, we see four tabs indicating the overview, user reviews, what's new, permissions for it (above). Within the permissions tab, permissions categories are listed, and under those categories we find the permission names. Our scripts add more content next to the permission name, such as a security rating and a percentage bar. The total risk score of the app is displayed above the star rating (pictured above).

Soon I will post prettier and more detailed pictures of the script's visual result.

- Eunice.

Our work so far

Hi,

After one semester of work as well as most of winter break to look a good bit of it over there are some working visuals associated with our work. As a quick summary of it you can browse the following screenshots of a working part of out work so far. 

 Above is an example of an applications web page on the google play website and below shows what is changed when we calculate a score for the app and present the information to the user.

With the simple graphics on the page as well as some other similar changes to the webpage, an idea about an apps potential maliciousness can be conveyed to the user in a quick easy manner. 

Lastly below is an example of an app that may not be malicious necessarily, but requests an abnormally large number of permissions that put it in a position to be potentially dangerous.

there will be more to come in the coming weeks, stay tuned!

-Daniel

Update from Last Week

Hello, hello,

Last week Danny and I met with Dr. Zheng to speak about the abstract. During the Thanksgiving break we revised it and submitted it for the Tapia Conference.

- Eunice.

Update from Last Meeting

Hello,

Danny and I have been working on a JavaScript script (script,  script?) which displays the risk score for each permission category within the Google Play store. Thus, on our Nov 16 meeting, we discussed how it was implemented and executed. For now, to the abstract-writing!

- Eunice.