Health Monitors Under The Magnifying Glass: A Privacy And Security Study
December 01, 2016
Among the applications tested, MedM was the only one found to correctly implement certificate pinning, and the study noted MedM's fine-grained role and permission configuration.
"The adoption of mHealth in well-being solutions and medical monitoring advances very quickly. Already mHealth data is not only used for doctor consultation or selfmonitoring but also as evidence taken to the courtroom. At the same time security incidents and privacy issues happen regularly. Less often people are aware of related risks. Though past technology trends have shown that security and privacy issues in software and systems follow repeating pattern."
Read the full thesis: https://martin-kraemer.net/docs/msc-thesis.pdf
