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Voice control is a popular way to operate mobile devices, enabling users to communicate requests to their devices. However, adversaries can leverage voice control to trick mobile devices into executing commands to leak secrets or to modify…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-04 Giuseppe Petracca , Yuqiong Sun , Ahmad Atamli , Trent Jaeger

Smartphones have become quite pervasive in various aspects of our daily lives. They have become important links to a host of important data and applications, which if compromised, can lead to disastrous results. Due to this, today's…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-15 Thingom Bishal Singha , Rajsekhar Kumar Nath , A. V. Narsimhadhan

Receiving calls is one of the most universal functions of smartphones, involving sensitive information and critical operations. Unfortunately, to prioritize convenience, the current call receiving process bypasses smartphone authentication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Xiping Sun , Jing Chen , Kun He , Zhixiang He , Ruiying Du , Yebo Feng , Qingchuan Zhao , Cong Wu

Smartphones contain information that is more sensitive and personal than those found on computers and laptops. With an increase in the versatility of smartphone functionality, more data has become vulnerable and exposed to attackers.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Sai Vishwanath Venkatesh , Prasanna D. Kumaran , Joish J Bosco , Pravin R. Kumaar , Vineeth Vijayaraghavan

The popularity of mobile device has made people's lives more convenient, but threatened people's privacy at the same time. As end users are becoming more and more concerned on the protection of their private information, it is even harder…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-07-04 Zhe Zhou , Wenrui Diao , Xiangyu Liu , Kehuan Zhang

There is growing concern about how personal data are used when users grant applications direct access to the sensors of their mobile devices. In fact, high resolution temporal data generated by motion sensors reflect directly the activities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Mohammad Malekzadeh , Richard G. Clegg , Andrea Cavallaro , Hamed Haddadi

Wearable devices such as smartwatches, fitness trackers, and blood-pressure monitors process, store, and communicate sensitive and personal information related to the health, life-style, habits and interests of the wearer. This data is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Ludovic Barman , Alexandre Dumur , Apostolos Pyrgelis , Jean-Pierre Hubaux

Smart devices serviced by large-scale AI models necessitates user data transfer to the cloud for inference. For speech applications, this means transferring private user information, e.g., speaker identity. Our paper proposes a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-26 Md Asif Jalal , Pablo Peso Parada , Jisi Zhang , Karthikeyan Saravanan , Mete Ozay , Myoungji Han , Jung In Lee , Seokyeong Jung

Besides its linguistic content, our speech is rich in biometric information that can be inferred by classifiers. Learning privacy-preserving representations for speech signals enables downstream tasks without sharing unnecessary, private…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Dimitrios Stoidis , Andrea Cavallaro

For the time being, mobile devices employ implicit authentication mechanisms, namely, unlock patterns, PINs or biometric-based systems such as fingerprint or face recognition. While these systems are prone to well-known attacks, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Cezara Benegui , Radu Tudor Ionescu

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

In this work, we address a novel, but potentially emerging, problem of discriminating the natural human voices and those played back by any kind of audio devices in the context of interactions with in-house voice user interface. The tackled…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Thanh-Ha Le , Philippe Gilberton , Ngoc Q. K. Duong

The rapid proliferation of speech-enabled technologies, including virtual assistants, video conferencing platforms, and wearable devices, has raised significant privacy concerns, particularly regarding the inference of sensitive emotional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Mohd. Farhan Israk Soumik , W. K. M. Mithsara , Abdur R. Shahid , Ahmed Imteaj

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

With the rise of voice-enabled technologies, loudspeaker playback has become widespread, posing increasing risks to speech privacy. Traditional eavesdropping methods often require invasive access or line-of-sight, limiting their…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Dachao Han , Teng Huang , Han Ding , Cui Zhao , Fei Wang , Ge Wang , Wei Xi

While smartphone usage become more and more pervasive, people start also asking to which extent such devices can be maliciously exploited as "tracking devices". The concern is not only related to an adversary taking physical or remote…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-07-30 Mauro Conti , Luigi V. Mancini , Riccardo Spolaor , Nino V. Verde

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…

Modern optical mouse sensors, with their advanced precision and high responsiveness, possess an often overlooked vulnerability: they can be exploited for side-channel attacks. This paper introduces Mic-E-Mouse, the first-ever side-channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Mohamad Fakih , Rahul Dharmaji , Youssef Mahmoud , Halima Bouzidi , Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque

We present the first acoustic side-channel attack that recovers what users type on the virtual keyboard of their touch-screen smartphone or tablet. When a user taps the screen with a finger, the tap generates a sound wave that propagates on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Ilia Shumailov , Laurent Simon , Jeff Yan , Ross Anderson

Sound at frequencies above (ultrasonic) or below (infrasonic) the range of human hearing can, in some settings, cause adverse physiological and psychological effects to individuals. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Matt Wixey , Shane Johnson , Emiliano De Cristofaro