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User Publications
Log: It’s Big, It’s Heavy, It’s Filled with Personal Data! Measuring the Logging of Sensitive Information in the Android Ecosystem
Allan Lyons, Julien Gamba, Austin Shawaga, Joel Reardon, Juan Tapiador, Serge Egelman, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez
Usenix Security Symposium. Anaheim, CA, USA. August 2023
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
"Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep?" On Privacy in the Android Supply Chain (PhD)
Julien Gamba
September 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
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
An Analysis of Pre-installed Android Software
Julien Gamba, Mohammed Rashed, Abbas Razaghpanah, Juan Tapiador, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez
The 41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P 2020). San Fransisco, CA, USA. May 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
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
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 Long Way to the Top: Significance, Structure, and Stability of Internet Top Lists
Quirin Scheitle, Oliver Hohlfeld, Julien Gamba, Jonas Jelten, Torsten Zimmermann, Stephen Strowes, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez
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
A Study on the Privacy Implications of Mobile Parental Control Apps (Poster)
Álvaro Feal, Julien Gamba, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez, Carmela Troncoso, Alessandra Gorla, Paolo Calciati
Open Day for Privacy, Transparency and Decentralization (OPERANDI 2018), in conjunction with the 18th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2018). Barcelona, Spain. July 2018
A Study on the Privacy Implications of Mobile Parental Control Apps (Poster)
Álvaro Feal, Julien Gamba, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez, Carmela Troncoso, Alessandra Gorla, Paolo Calciati
Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA 2018). Vienna, Austria. June 2018
A Long Way to the Top: Significance, Structure, and Stability of Internet Top Lists (Poster)
Quirin Scheitle, Oliver Hohlfeld, Julien Gamba, Jonas Jelten, Torsten Zimmermann, Stephen Strowes, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez
CoRR. 1805.11506. Volume abs/18 , arXiv. The 8th TMA PhD School and Conference 2018. Vienna, Austria. June 2018
An Analysis of Pre-installed Android Software
Julien Gamba, Mohammed Rashed, Razaghpanah Abbas, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez, Juan Tapiador
IV Jornadas Nacionales de Investigación en Ciberseguridad (JNIC 2018). Donostia, San Sebastián, Spain. June 2018