English
Related papers

Related papers: PatternListener: Cracking Android Pattern Lock Usi…

200 papers

It is well known that recognizers personalized to each user are much more effective than user-independent recognizers. With the popularity of smartphones today, although it is not difficult to collect a large set of audio data for each…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Cheng-Kuan Wei , Cheng-Tao Chung , Hung-Yi Lee , Lin-Shan Lee

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which dramatically alter model output using small input changes. We propose Neural Fingerprinting, a simple, yet effective method to detect adversarial examples by verifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Sumanth Dathathri , Stephan Zheng , Tianwei Yin , Richard M. Murray , Yisong Yue

Jailbreak attacks to Large audio-language models (LALMs) are studied recently, but they exclusively focused on the attack scenario where the adversary can fully manipulate user prompts (named strong adversary) and limited in effectiveness,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Guangke Chen , Fu Song , Zhe Zhao , Xiaojun Jia , Yang Liu , Yanchen Qiao , Weizhe Zhang , Weiping Tu , Yuhong Yang , Bo Du

In recent years, there has been rapid growth in mobile devices such as smartphones, and a number of applications are developed specifically for the smartphone market. In particular, there are many applications that are ``free'' to the user,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-05-20 Hiroki Kuzuno , Satoshi Tonami

This work considers identity attack on a radio-frequency identification (RFID)-based backscatter communication system. Specifically, we consider a single-reader, single-tag RFID system whereby the reader and the tag undergo two-way…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-02 Ahsan Mehmood , Waqas Aman , M. Mahboob Ur Rahman , M. A. Imran , Qammer H. Abbasi

Ear canal scanning/sensing (ECS) has emerged as a novel biometric authentication method for mobile devices paired with wireless earbuds. Existing studies have demonstrated the uniqueness of ear canals by training and testing machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Chenpei Huang , Lingfeng Yao , Hui Zhong , Kyu In Lee , Lan Zhang , Xiaoyong Yuan , Tomoaki Ohtsuki , Miao Pan

The Android operating system runs on the majority of smartphones nowadays. Its success is driven by its availability to a variety of smartphone hardware vendors on the one hand, and the customization possibilities given to its users on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Raphael Bialon

Two-factor authentication protects online accounts even if passwords are leaked. Most users, however, prefer password-only authentication. One reason why two-factor authentication is so unpopular is the extra steps that the user must…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-08-04 Nikolaos Karapanos , Claudio Marforio , Claudio Soriente , Srdjan Capkun

Due to the mass advancement in ubiquitous technologies nowadays, new pervasive methods have come into the practice to provide new innovative features and stimulate the research on new human-computer interactions. This paper presents a hand…

Sensors embedded in mobile smart devices can monitor users' activity with high accuracy to provide a variety of services to end-users ranging from precise geolocation, health monitoring, and handwritten word recognition. However, this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Rahat Masood , Wing Yan Cheng , Dinusha Vatsalan , Deepak Mishra , Hassan Jameel Asghar , Mohamed Ali Kaafar

Silent speech interfaces (SSI) has been an exciting area of recent interest. In this paper, we present a non-invasive silent speech interface that uses inaudible acoustic signals to capture people's lip movements when they speak. We exploit…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-24 Jian Luo , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Guilin Jiang , Jing Xiao

Personal Identification Numbers (PIN) are widely used as authentication method for systems such as Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) and Point of Sale (PoS). Input devices (PIN pads) usually give the user a feedback sound when a key is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Matteo Cardaioli , Mauro Conti , Kiran Balagani , Paolo Gasti

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in sensitive domains including healthcare, legal services, and confidential communications, where privacy is paramount. This paper introduces Whisper Leak, a side-channel attack that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Geoff McDonald , Jonathan Bar Or

We present METAATTACK, the first approach to leverage acoustic metamaterials for inaudible attacks for voice control systems. Compared to the state-of-the-art inaudible attacks requiring complex and large speaker setups, METAATTACK achieves…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Zhiyuan Ning , Juan He , Zhanyong Tang , Weihang Hu , Xiaojiang Chen

With wearable devices such as smartwatches on the rise in the consumer electronics market, securing these wearables is vital. However, the current security mechanisms only focus on validating the user not the device itself. Indeed,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Hidayet Aksu , A. Selcuk Uluagac , Elizabeth S. Bentley

Throughout the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, several countries have developed and released contact tracing and exposure notification smartphone applications (apps) to help slow the spread of the disease. To support such apps, Apple and…

Smartphones are now frequently used by end-users as the portals to cloud-based services, and smartphones are easily stolen or co-opted by an attacker. Beyond the initial log-in mechanism, it is highly desirable to re-authenticate end-users…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Wei-Han Lee , Ruby Lee

Smartphones and tablets have become prime targets for malware, due to the valuable private and corporate information they hold. While Anti-Virus (AV) program may successfully detect malicious applications (apps), they remain ineffective…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mordechai Guri , Yuri Poliak , Bracha Shapira , Yuval Elovici

With the increasing popularity of the Internet of Things(IoT) devices, the demand for fast and convenient battery charging services grows rapidly. Wireless charging is a promising technology for such a purpose and its usage has become…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Zhiyun Wang , Jiayu Zhang , Xiaoyu Ji , Wenyuan Xu , Gang Qu , Minjian Zhao

In this work, we propose a multi-target backdoor attack against speaker identification using position-independent clicking sounds as triggers. Unlike previous single-target approaches, our method targets up to 50 speakers simultaneously,…