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Android device eavesdropping investigation. [Research Saturday]

Sep 15, 2018 · 20 min · Season 2 · Episode 53
0:00-20:08

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A team of researchers from Northeastern University and UC Santa Barbara examined over 17,000 Android apps, and revealed a number of alarming privacy risks. 

Elleen Pan and Christo Wilson were members of the research team, and they join us to share what they found. 

The research is titled Panoptispy: Characterizing Audio and Video Exfiltration from Android Applications. It can be found here:

https://recon.meddle.mobi/papers/panoptispy18pets.pdf