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Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Android; DoS attack; Free floating window; GUI hijacking; Input inference

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Attacks And Defence On Android Free Floating Windows, Lingyun Ying, Yao Cheng, Yemian Lu, Yacong Gu, Purui Su, Dengguo Feng May 2016

Attacks And Defence On Android Free Floating Windows, Lingyun Ying, Yao Cheng, Yemian Lu, Yacong Gu, Purui Su, Dengguo Feng

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Nowadays, the popular Android is so closely involved in people's daily lives that people rely on Android to perform critical operations and trust Android with sensitive information. It is of great importance to guarantee the usability and security of Android which, however, is such a huge system that a potential threat may arise from any part of it. In this paper, we focus on the Free Floating window (FF window) which is a category of windows that can appear freely above any other applications. It can share the screen space with other FF windows, dialogs, and activities. An FF window …