[PLUG-ANNOUNCE] TUESDAY: November PLUG Advanced Topics: Android App Collusion

[Michael Dexter]

Portland Linux/Unix Group Advanced Topics Meeting Announcement

Who: Rogan Creswick
What: Multi-App Security Analysis: Looking for Android App Collusion
Where: Free Geek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue, Portland (Left Entrance)
When: Tuesday, November 19th, 2013 at 7pm
Why: The pursuit of technology freedom

The Android permission model opens up a number of opportunities for apps
to bypass the established single-app permission checks that Android
users rely on to control data flow and application behavior on their
devices. I'll do my best to terrify the Android-using audience by
describing the attack surface for colluding applications and showing
interactive visualizations of multi-app data flow.  We'll look at the
Android permission model, the user-interface it results in, and I'll
show just how easy it is to make apps that look innocuous.

Bio:

Rogan Creswick develops unique tools and techniques for software
development and security analysis at Galois, Inc. His research interests
focus on improving the state of the art in software engineering tools
and user interfaces. His experience also reaches into the areas of user
interface automation and customization via integrated assistants and
automated documentation aides at IBM Research. He has striven to provide
natural interfaces to ease communication with complex and semi-sentient
agents through existing tools that have already become trustworthy and
familiar to their users.

Many will head to the Lucky Lab on Hawthorne after the meeting.

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See you there!

Michael Dexter
PLUG Volunteer