The Android logging mechanism is used by many Android applications. Even the Android framework uses this mechanism for outputting debug information. But does this logging mechanism also include private information? This article gives a short overview of the privacy-sensitive information that could be gathered from the Android logging mechanism. It also describes Google’s countermeasure of accessing the “log file” since Android 4.1 and what kind of possibilities an attacker still has. Read the rest of this entry »
Prof. Dr. Eric Bodden
Professor for Secure Software Engineering at Heinz Nixdorf Institute, Paderborn University and
Director for Software Engineering and IT Security at Fraunhofer IEM
Director for Software Engineering and IT Security at Fraunhofer IEM
