Android device eavesdropping investigation. [Research Saturday]

Published: Sept. 15, 2018, 10 a.m.

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.\xa0\nElleen Pan and Christo Wilson were members of the research team, and they join us to share what they found.\xa0\nThe research is titled Panoptispy: Characterizing Audio and Video Exfiltration from Android Applications. It can be found here:\nhttps://recon.meddle.mobi/papers/panoptispy18pets.pdf\n\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices