Smartphone applications

William Enck, Peter Gilbert, Byung gon Chun, Landon P. Cox, Jaeyeon Jung, Patrick McDaniel, and Anmol Sheth. “TaintDroid: An information-flow tracking system for realtime privacy monitoring on smartphones”. In Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), pages 393–407, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 2010.
[USENIX]

Manuel Egele, Christopher Kruegel, Engin Kirda, and Giovanni Vigna. “PiOS: Detecting privacy leaks in iOS applications”. In Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), pages 473–487, San Diego, CA, USA, February 2011.
[NDSS]

William Enck, Damien Octeau, Patrick McDaniel, and Swarat Chaudhuri. “A study of Android application security”. In USENIX Security Symposium, San Francisco, CA, USA, August 2011.
[USENIX]

Lok Kwong Yan and Heng Yin. “DroidScope: Seamlessly reconstructing the OS and Dalvik semantic views for dynamic Android malware analysis”. In USENIX Security Symposium, Bellevue, WA, USA, August 2012.
[USENIX]

Question: TBD

Optional

Damien Octeau, Somesh Jha, and Patrick McDaniel. “Retargeting Android applications to Java bytecode”. In Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), Cary, NC, USA, November 2012.
[ACM]

Android applications are written in Java, but distributed in a non-standard bytecode format that has significant differences from regular .class files. This paper is devoted to how to translate back.