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Award for ATHENE researcher: Most Influential Paper at ICSE
The paper "IccTA: Detecting Inter-Component Privacy Leaks in Android Apps", which was written ten years ago with significant input from ATHENE researcher Dr Steven Arzt, has been awarded the Most Influential Paper ICSE N-10 prize at this year's International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).
The IccTA solution, which was presented at ICSE ten years ago, enables a better understanding of data flows within Android applications. A common problem is that apps send information not only to the internet, but also exchange it between different components and applications, making it difficult to track these data flows. In order to identify these cross-component data flows precisely and uncover potential data protection gaps, the researchers developed the static analysis tool IccTA. This provides developers and security experts with a deeper insight into communication channels between individual app components.
IccTA is now an integral part of the open-source FlowDroid project and will continue to be maintained alongside it (link to GitHub: https://github.com/secure-software-engineering/FlowDroid).
This year's prize was awarded at the conference to the following authors: Li Li, Alexandre Bartel, Tegawend'e F., Jacques Klein, Yves Le Traon, Steven Arz, Siegfried Rasthofer, Eric Bodden, Damien Octeau and Patrick McDaniel.
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