@inproceedings{d401c9bb067f4a969f0fdcbb2cea3054,
title = "TaintDroid: An information-flow tracking system for realtime privacy monitoring on smartphones",
abstract = "Today's smartphone operating systems frequently fail to provide users with adequate control over and visibility into how third-party applications use their private data. We address these shortcomings with TaintDroid, an efficient, system-wide dynamic taint tracking and analysis system capable of simultaneously tracking multiple sources of sensitive data. TaintDroid provides realtime analysis by leveraging Android's virtualized execution environment. TaintDroid incurs only 14% performance overhead on a CPU-bound micro-benchmark and imposes negligible overhead on interactive third-party applications. Using TaintDroid to monitor the behavior of 30 popular third-party Android applications, we found 68 instances of potential misuse of users' private information across 20 applications. Monitoring sensitive data with TaintDroid provides informed use of third-party applications for phone users and valuable input for smartphone security service firms seeking to identify misbehaving applications.",
author = "William Enck and Peter Gilbert and Chun, {Byung Gon} and Cox, {Landon P.} and Jaeyeon Jung and Patrick McDaniel and Sheth, {Anmol N.}",
year = "2019",
month = jan,
day = "1",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the 9th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, OSDI 2010",
publisher = "USENIX Association",
pages = "393--407",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 9th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, OSDI 2010",
note = "9th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, OSDI 2010 ; Conference date: 04-10-2010 Through 06-10-2010",
}