security

Identifying Casualty Changes in Software Patches

Noise in software patches impacts their understanding, automated analysis, and use for tasks such as change prediction. Although several approaches have been developed to identify noise in patches, this issue has persisted. An analysis of a recently …

A SEALANT for Inter-App Security Holes in Android

Android's communication model has a major security weakness: malicious apps can manipulate other apps into performing unintended operations and can steal end-user data, while appearing ordinary and harmless. This paper presents SEALANT, a technique …