[HGI-news-int] Security App for Androids

[English Newsletter of the Horst Goertz Institute of IT Security in Bochum]

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You can download a free Android "App Permission Watcher" to monitor the
permissions needed by your other apps from the Android Market
https://market.android.com/details?id=de.struse.apewatch or via
http://www.apewatch.de in English or German.

The app was developed as part of the master's thesis of Eric Struse and
also as part of a common research project of the working group for Long
Term Security at the Ruhr University Bochum (Christopher Wolf) and the
Mobile Human-Computer-Interaction Group at the University of
Duisburg-Essen (Enrico Rukzio).

The application assists users to monitor the permissions used by
installed applications. It warns users about suspicious permission
combinations that can be used to compromise privacy or to cause unwanted
costs.

Installing this App helps us to better understand security aspects in
the area of user interaction.

Questions: Eric Struse <Eric at Struse.de>

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