Push messaging is among the most important mobile-cloud services,
offering critical supports to a wide spectrum of mobile apps.
This service needs to coordinate complicated interactions between
developer servers and their apps in a large scale, making it error
prone. With its importance, little has been done, however, to understand
the security risks of the service. In this paper, we report
the first security analysis on those push-messaging services, which
reveals the pervasiveness of subtle yet significant security flaws in
them, affecting billions of mobile users.
more here.............http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/zhou/files/mobile_cloud.pdf
offering critical supports to a wide spectrum of mobile apps.
This service needs to coordinate complicated interactions between
developer servers and their apps in a large scale, making it error
prone. With its importance, little has been done, however, to understand
the security risks of the service. In this paper, we report
the first security analysis on those push-messaging services, which
reveals the pervasiveness of subtle yet significant security flaws in
them, affecting billions of mobile users.
more here.............http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/zhou/files/mobile_cloud.pdf