Evaluation of mHealth Applications Security Based on Application Permissions.
The presented study covers the evaluation of ratings of a set of 1080 applications classified as “top apps” for the two categories “Medicine” and “Health & Fitness” as they are available on Google’s Play Store. Within the evaluation, the manifest files and source code of the applications were analyz...
| Publicado en: | Studies in Health Technology & Informatics Vol. 226; pp. 241 - 245 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
2016
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