Events, conferences and formative activities

Last November 21st we gave a practical workshop for developers within the X LexDatum Conference at the School of Computer Engineering of the University of Valladolid. In the workshop given by Mercedes Martínez González, Margarita Gonzalo Tasis, Pablo-Abel Criado Lozano, Alejandro Pérez de la Fuente and Luis Blanco de la Cruz tried to explain how… Read more: Practical workshop X LexDatum Conference

In the Hack-en 2024 edition, our colleague Amador Aparicio gave a workshop to quantify how much impact mobile applications have on the security and privacy of users. To do this, he reviewed the types of permissions that exist in Android, explained how to accept or deny permissions and, in a practical way, showed the impact… Read more: Hack-en 2024

We train young people in digital privacy. From the Privacy Engineering Research Group of the School of Computer Engineering of the University of Valladolid, we work to raise awareness about the importance of personal data protection. Last January we gave a practical workshop at Las Huelgas School (Valladolid) for 54 students of 3rd and 4th… Read more: Workshop for students of 3rd and 4th of E.S.O. at Las Huelgas College

Our Privacy Engineering Research Group participated last December in the Tierra de Pinares Science Week by giving a practical workshop for mobile device users in Aldeamayor de San Martín. The objective was to help them understand and protect their privacy when using applications. Mercedes Martínez and Alejandro Pérez de la Fuente together with a group… Read more: Tierra de Pinares Science Week Workshop

With the widespread use of health apps, more personal data is generated and shared, have you ever wondered if that data is safe? At UCamI 2024 we present the App-PI Project on the analysis of the potential privacy impact of health apps. In our presentation we show how to analyze these applications through our repository… Read more: UCAmI 2024

Last October our research group attended RECSI 2024, the XVIII Spanish Meeting of Cryptology and Information Security. In addition to presenting the App-PI Project that we are developing within a collaboration agreement between the University of Valladolid and INCIBE – National Institute of Cybersecurity, we showed the App-PIMD repository where we store the data we… Read more: RECSI 2024

In our presentation at Navaja Negra 2024 we explain the difference between permissions and groups in the Android security model, present the metrics we use in our APKFalcon app and how we leverage information about permissions, groups and malware use of permissions to build metrics. We also show the repository where we store the data… Read more: Navaja Negra 2024

Last October our Privacy Engineering Research Group participated with the App-PI Project in the Conference “Self-protection against cybercrime” organized by the Guardia Civil and the School of Computer Engineering. Our colleague Mercedes Martinez Gonzalez gave a talk on the keys to the ‘Self-protection of citizens from the world of Apps’. She also explained the App-PI Project (App-Privacy… Read more: Conference “Self-protection against cybercrime”