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Not Your Average App: A Large-scale Privacy Analysis of Android Browsers
Amogh Pradeep, Álvaro Feal, Julien Gamba, Ashwin Rao, Martina Lindorfer, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez, David Choffnes
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (was International Workshop of Privacy Enhancing Technologies). Laussane, Switzerland. July 2023
Mules and Permission Laundering in Android: Dissecting Custom Permissios in the Wild
Julien Gamba, Álvaro Feal, Eduardo Blázquez, Vinuri Bandara, Abbas Razaghpanah, Juan Tapiador, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 10.1109/TDSC.2023.3288981. IEEE. June 2023
Mixed Signals: Analyzing Software Attribution Challenges in the Android Ecosystem
Kaspar Hageman, Álvaro Feal, Julien Gamba, Aniketh Girish, Jakob Bleier, Martina Lindorfer, Juan Tapiador, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. January 2023
“And all the pieces matter...” Hybrid Testing Methods for Android App’s Privacy Analysis (PhD)
Álvaro Feal
November 2022
Trouble Over-The-Air: An Analysis of FOTA Apps in the Android Ecosystem
Eduardo Blázquez, Sergio Pastrana, Álvaro Feal, Julien Gamba, Platon Kotizias, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez, Juan Tapiador
42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P). May 2021
Blocklist Babel: On the Transparency and Dynamics of Open Source Blocklisting
Álvaro Feal, Pelayo Vallina, Julien Gamba, Sergio Pastrana, Antonio Nappa, Oliver Hohlfeld, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez, Juan Tapiador
Transactions on Network and Service Management. May 2021
Don't Accept Candy from Strangers: An Analysis of Third-Party Mobile SDKs
Álvaro Feal, Julien Gamba, Juan Tapiador, Primal Wijesekera, Joel Reardon, Serge Egelman, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez
Volume Data Protection and Artificial Intelligence , Blomsbury Publishing. ISBN: 9781509941759. February 2021
Understanding Incentivized Mobile App Installs on Google Play Store
Shehroze Farooqi, Álvaro Feal, Tobias Lauinger, Mccoy Damon, Zubair Shafiq, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez
The 20th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (ACM IMC 2020). Virtual event. October 2020
Mis-shapes, Mistakes, Misfits: An Analysis of Domain Classification Services
Pelayo Vallina, Victor Le Pochat, Álvaro Feal, Marius Paraschiv, Julien Gamba, Time Burke, Hohlfeld Oliver, Juan Tapiador, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez
The 20th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (ACM IMC 2020). Virtual event. October 2020
The Price is (Not) Right:Comparing Privacy in Free and Paid Apps
Catherine Han, Irwin Reyes, Álvaro Feal, Joel Reardon, Primal Wijesekera, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez, Amit Elazari Bar On, Kenneth. A Bamberger, Serge Egelman
The 20th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2020). Montreal, Canada. July 2020
Angel or Devil? A Privacy Study of Mobile Parental Control Apps
Álvaro Feal, Paolo Calciati, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez, Carmela Troncoso, Alessandra Gorla
Proceedings of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETS). Volume 2020 , The 20th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2020). Montreal, Canada. July 2020
Don’t accept candies from strangers: An analysis of third-party SDKs
Álvaro Feal, Julien Gamba, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez, Primal Wijesekera, Joel Reardon, Serge Egelman, Juan Tapiador
Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference (CPDP 2020). Brussels, Belgium. January 2020
50 Ways to Leak Your Data: An Exploration of Apps’ Circumvention of the Android Permissions System
Joel Reardon, Álvaro Feal, Primal Wijesekera, Amit Elazari Bar On, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez, Serge Egelman
USENIX. Volume 44 , USENIX. December 2019
Tales from the Porn: A Comprehensive Privacy Analysis of the Web Porn Ecosystem
Pelayo Vallina, Álvaro Feal, Julien Gamba, Antonio Fernández Anta, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez
The 19th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (ACM IMC 2019). Amsterdam, Netherlands. October 2019
50 Ways to Leak Your Data: An Exploration of Apps' Circumvention of the Android Permissions Systems
Joel Reardon, Álvaro Feal, Primal Wijesekera, Amit Elazari Bar On, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez, Serge Egelman
The 28th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2019). Santa Clara, CA, USA. August 2019
Do You Get What You Pay For? Comparing the Privacy Behaviors of Free vs. Paid Apps
Catherine Han, Irwin Reyes, Amit Elazari Bar On, Joel Reardon, Álvaro Feal, Serge Egelman, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez
Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro 2019), in conjunction with the 39th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 23 May 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA.. San Francisco, CA, USA. May 2019
On The Ridiculousness of Notice and Consent: Contradictions in App Privacy Policies
Ehimare Okoyomon, Nikita Samarin, Primal Wijesekera, Amit Elazari Bar On, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez, Irwin Reyes, Álvaro Feal, Serge Egelman
Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro 2019), in conjunction with the 39th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. San Francisco, CA, USA. May 2019
Everybody’s got something to hide: Analysis of the Online Adult Ecosystem (Poster)
Pelayo Vallina, Álvaro Feal, Julien Gamba, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez, Antonio Fernández Anta
The 18th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (ACM IMC 2018). Boston, MA, USA. October 2018
A Multi-Protocol Analysis of Android App’s Traffic From The Edge (Poster)
Abbas Razaghpanah, Julien Gamba, Álvaro Feal, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez, Mark Allman, Phillipa Gill
The 18th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (ACM IMC 2018). Boston, MA, USA. October 2018
Exploring Anycast-Based Public DNS Resolvers (Poster)
Julien Gamba, Álvaro Feal, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez
The 18th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (ACM IMC 2018). Boston, MA, USA. October 2018