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Recent works have explained the principle of using ultrasonic transmissions to jam nearby microphones. These signals are inaudible to nearby users, but leverage "hardware nonlinearity" to induce a jamming signal inside microphones that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Yuxin Chen , Huiying Li , Steven Nagels , Zhijing Li , Pedro Lopes , Ben Y. Zhao , Haitao Zheng

Smartphone motion sensors provide a concealed mechanism for eavesdropping on acoustic information, like touchtones, emitted by a device. Eavesdropping on touchtones exposes credit card information, banking pins, and social security card…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Connor Bolton , Yan Long , Jun Han , Josiah Hester , Kevin Fu

Social interactions play a crucial role in shaping human behavior, relationships, and societies. It encompasses various forms of communication, such as verbal conversation, non-verbal gestures, facial expressions, and body language. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Alice Zhang , Callihan Bertley , Dawei Liang , Edison Thomaz

Automatic speech recognition systems have created exciting possibilities for applications, however they also enable opportunities for systematic eavesdropping. We propose a method to camouflage a person's voice over-the-air from these…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Mia Chiquier , Chengzhi Mao , Carl Vondrick

Modern corporations physically separate their sensitive computational infrastructure from public or other accessible networks in order to prevent cyber-attacks. However, attackers still manage to infect these networks, either by means of an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Yisroel Mirsky , Mordechai Guri , Yuval Elovici

Sensors are embedded in security-critical applications from medical devices to nuclear power plants, but their outputs can be spoofed through electromagnetic and other types of signals transmitted by attackers at a distance. To address the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Ilias Giechaskiel , Youqian Zhang , Kasper B. Rasmussen

This paper investigates the privacy leakage of smart speakers under an encrypted traffic analysis attack, referred to as voice command fingerprinting. In this attack, an adversary can eavesdrop both outgoing and incoming encrypted voice…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Chenggang Wang , Sean Kennedy , Haipeng Li , King Hudson , Gowtham Atluri , Xuetao Wei , Wenhai Sun , Boyang Wang

The exchange of data between mobile devices in the near-ultrasonic frequency band is a new promising technology for near field communication (NFC) but also raises a number of privacy concerns. We present the first ultrasonic firewall that…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Matthias Zeppelzauer , Alexis Ringot , Florian Taurer

Most modern smartphones are equipped with a barometer to sample air pressure. Accessing these samples is deemed harmless, hence does not require any permission. In this work, we show, however, that these samples can reveal sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Alireza Hafez , Dorsa Nahid , Majid Khabbazian

Modern Internet-enabled smart lights promise energy efficiency and many additional capabilities over traditional lamps. However, these connected lights create a new attack surface, which can be maliciously used to violate users' privacy and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Anindya Maiti , Murtuza Jadliwala

Air-gapped systems are isolated from the Internet due to the sensitive information they handle. This paper presents COVID-bit, a new COVert channel attack that leaks sensitive information over the air from highly isolated systems. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Mordechai Guri

Air-gap covert channels are special types of covert communication channels that enable attackers to exfiltrate data from isolated, network-less computers. Various types of air-gap covert channels have been demonstrated over the years,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Mordechai Guri

he technology on infrared remote control is widely applied in human daily life. It is also applied in the place with a top security level. Infrared remote control signal is regarded as a simple, safe and clean resource that can help us…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Zheng Zhou , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

We propose a new class of signal injection attacks on microphones by physically converting light to sound. We show how an attacker can inject arbitrary audio signals to a target microphone by aiming an amplitude-modulated light at the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Takeshi Sugawara , Benjamin Cyr , Sara Rampazzi , Daniel Genkin , Kevin Fu

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

A smartwatch worn continuously on the wrist has the potential to perceive rich interactive gestures and natural behaviors of the user. Unfortunately, the current interaction functionality of smartwatches is primarily limited by the small…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Yingtian Shi , Chun Yu , Xuyang Lu , Xing-Dong Yang , Yuntao Wang , Yuanchun Shi

Smart speakers are gaining popularity. However, such devices can put the user's privacy at risk whenever hot-words are misinterpreted and voice data is recorded without the user's consent. To mitigate such risks, smart speakers provide…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Christian Tiefenau , Maximilian Häring , Eva Gerlitz , Emanuel von Zezschwitz

The growing adoption of voice-enabled devices (e.g., smart speakers), particularly in smart home environments, has introduced many security vulnerabilities that pose significant threats to users' privacy and safety. When multiple devices…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Payton Walker , Tianfang Zhang , Cong Shi , Nitesh Saxena , Yingying Chen

Air-gapped networks are wired with Ethernet cables since wireless connections are strictly prohibited. In this paper we present LANTENNA - a new type of electromagnetic attack allowing adversaries to leak sensitive data from isolated,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Mordechai Guri

Since its inception, underwater digital acoustic communication has required custom hardware that neither has the economies of scale nor is pervasive. We present the first acoustic system that brings underwater messaging capabilities to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Tuochao Chen , Justin Chan , Shyamnath Gollakota