TY - GEN
T1 - Understanding the security management of global third-party android marketplaces
AU - Ishii, Yuta
AU - Watanabe, Takuya
AU - Kanei, Fumihiro
AU - Takata, Yuta
AU - Shioji, Eitaro
AU - Akiyama, Mitsuaki
AU - Yagi, Takeshi
AU - Sun, Bo
AU - Mori, Tatsuya
N1 - Funding Information:
A part of this work was supported by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research B,Grant Number JP16H02832.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSOFT International Workshop on App Market Analytics, Co-located with FSE 2017. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/9/5
Y1 - 2017/9/5
N2 - As an open platform, Android enables the introduction of a variety of third-party marketplaces in which developers can provide mobile apps that are not provided in the official marketplace. Since the initial release of Android OS in 2008, many third-party app marketplaces have been launched all over the world. The diversity of which leads us to the following research question: are these thirdparty marketplaces securely managed? This work aims to answer this question through a large-scale empirical study. We collected more than 4.7 million Android apps from 27 third-party marketplaces, including ones that had not previously been studied in the research community, and analyzed them to study their security measures. Based on the results, we also attempt to quantify the security index of these marketplaces.
AB - As an open platform, Android enables the introduction of a variety of third-party marketplaces in which developers can provide mobile apps that are not provided in the official marketplace. Since the initial release of Android OS in 2008, many third-party app marketplaces have been launched all over the world. The diversity of which leads us to the following research question: are these thirdparty marketplaces securely managed? This work aims to answer this question through a large-scale empirical study. We collected more than 4.7 million Android apps from 27 third-party marketplaces, including ones that had not previously been studied in the research community, and analyzed them to study their security measures. Based on the results, we also attempt to quantify the security index of these marketplaces.
KW - Mobile application market
KW - Security measures
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U2 - 10.1145/3121264.3121267
DO - 10.1145/3121264.3121267
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85053163701
SN - 9781450351584
T3 - WAMA 2017 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSOFT International Workshop on App Market Analytics, Co-located with FSE 2017
SP - 12
EP - 18
BT - WAMA 2017 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSOFT International Workshop on App Market Analytics, Co-located with FSE 2017
A2 - Sarro, Federica
A2 - Shihab, Emad
A2 - Kaimann, Daniel
A2 - Nagappan, Meiyappan
A2 - Platenius, Marie C.
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 2nd ACM SIGSOFT International Workshop on App Market Analytics, WAMA 2017, Co-located with ESEC/FSE 2017
Y2 - 5 September 2017
ER -