An Empirical Comparison of Security and Privacy Characteristics of Android Messaging Apps

Mobile messaging apps are a fundamental communication infrastructure, used by billions of people every day to share information, including sensitive data. Security and Privacy are thus critical concerns for such applications. Although the cryptographic protocols prevalent in messaging apps are...

Exploiting Android Messengers with WebRTC: Part 2

Posted by Natalie Silvanovich, Project Zero This is a three-part series on exploiting messenger applications using vulnerabilities in WebRTC. This series highlights what can go wrong when applications don't apply WebRTC patches and when the communication and notification of security issues breaks...