Unauthorized Cross-App Resource Access on Mac OS X and iOS

This paper is to appear at the 22nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2015 (CCS), authored by Luyi Xing, Xiaolong Bai, Tongxin Li, XiaoFeng Wang, Kai Chen, Xiaojing Liao, Shi-min Hu, Xinhui Han.

XARA Vulnerabilities on Mac OS X and iOS

On modern operating systems, applications under the same user are separated from each other, for the purpose of protecting them against malware and compromised programs.…