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Sideeq Bello
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3ranked-venue papers
1as first author
3since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0005-6628-9550ORCID · reported
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Security and privacy · 3 · 1 first-author · 3 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | The privacy cost of fun: A measurement study of user data exposure in tiktok mini-games
Sideeq Bello, Lamine Noureddine, Babangida Bappah, Aisha I. Ali-Gombe |
Comput. Secur. | 1 |
| 2026 | Disclosure Divergence: Measuring Privacy Policy and Data Safety Misalignment at ScaleabstractWith the rapid growth of mobile applications, user data privacy has become an increasing concern. While privacy policies describe how apps collect and share data, platforms such as Google Play provide Data Safety labels intended to summarize these practices. Because these disclosure channels are declared separately, they may present inconsistent representations of app data practices, creating uncertainty for users and regulators. In this work, we conducted a large-scale empirical study of disclosure consistency across 6,051 Android apps. Using an LLM-based extraction framework and a unified schema over 14 Google Play data categories and two operations (collection and sharing), we measure per-app and per-category consistency and introduce a sensitivity-weighted risk score that emphasizes high-risk data types. We find that misalignment disproportionately affects sensitive categories such as personal information and device identifiers, with sharing disclosures exhibiting lower consistency than collection disclosures. Elevated privacy risk is concentrated in app categories associated with persistent monitoring and communication. Overall, our findings highlight structural gaps in current disclosure mechanisms and underscore the need for stronger verification and greater transparency in platform-level privacy reporting. Mst. Eshita Khatun, Lamine Noureddine, Sideeq Bello, Aisha I. Ali-Gombe |
Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol. | 3 |
| 2025 | Exploring Runtime Evolution in Android: A Cross-Version Analysis and Its Implications for Memory ForensicsabstractUserland memory forensics has become a critical component of smartphone investigations and incident response, enabling the recovery of volatile evidence such as deleted messages from end-to-end encrypted apps and cryptocurrency transactions. However, these forensics tools, particularly on Android, face significant challenges in adapting to different versions and maintaining reliability over time due to the constant evolution of low-level structures critical for evidence recovery and reconstruction. Structural changes, ranging from simple offset modifications to complete architectural redesigns, pose substantial maintenance and adaptability issues for forensic tools that rely on precise structure interpretation. Thus, this paper presents the first systematic study of Android Runtime (ART) structural evolution and its implications for memory forensics. We conduct an empirical analysis of critical Android runtime structures, examining their evolution across six versions for four different architectures. Our findings reveal that over $73.2 \%$ of structure members underwent positional changes, significantly affecting the adaptability and reliability of memory forensic tools. Further analysis of core components such as Runtime, Thread, and Heap structures highlights distinct evolution patterns and their impact on critical forensic operations, including thread state enumeration, memory mapping, and object reconstruction. These results demonstrate that traditional approaches relying on static structure definitions and symbol-based methods, while historically reliable, are increasingly unsustainable on their own. We recommend that memory forensic tools in general and Android in particular evolve toward hybrid approaches that retain the validation strength of symbolic methods while integrating automated structure inference, version-aware parsing, and redundant analysis strategies. These adaptations are essential for sustaining effective and trustworthy forensic capabilities amidst rapidly evolving runtime environments. Babangida Bappah, Lauren G. Bristol, Lamine Noureddine, Sideeq Bello, Umar Farooq 0002, Aisha I. Ali-Gombe |
RAID | 4 |