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Attacks And Countermeasures For Webview On Mobile Systems, Tongbo Luo

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ABSTRACT

All the mainstream mobile operating systems provide a web container, called ``WebView''. This Web-based interface can be included as part of the mobile application to retrieve and display web contents from remote servers. WebView not only provides the same functionalities as web browser, more importantly, it enables rich interactions between mobile apps and webpages loaded inside WebView. Through its APIs, WebView enables the two-way interaction. However, the design of WebView changes the landscape of the Web, especially from the security perspective.

This dissertation conducts a comprehensive and systematic study of WebView's impact on web security, with a particular focus …