Privacy Leakage in Mobile Sensing: Your Unlock Passwords Can Be Leaked through Wireless Hotspot Functionality
Joint Authors
Zhang, Jie
Zheng, Xiaolong
Tang, Zhanyong
Xing, Tianzhang
Chen, Xiaojiang
Fang, Dingyi
Li, Rong
Gong, Xiaoqing
Chen, Feng
Source
Issue
Vol. 2016, Issue 2016 (31 Dec. 2016), pp.1-14, 14 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2016-04-11
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
14
Main Subjects
Telecommunications Engineering
Abstract EN
Mobile sensing has become a new style of applications and most of the smart devices are equipped with varieties of sensors or functionalities to enhance sensing capabilities.
Current sensing systems concentrate on how to enhance sensing capabilities; however, the sensors or functionalities may lead to the leakage of users’ privacy.
In this paper, we present WiPass, a way to leverage the wireless hotspot functionality on the smart devices to snoop the unlock passwords/patterns without the support of additional hardware.
The attacker can “see” your unlock passwords/patterns even one meter away.
WiPass leverages the impacts of finger motions on the wireless signals during the unlocking period to analyze the passwords/patterns.
To practically implement WiPass, we are facing the difficult feature extraction and complex unlock passwords matching, making the analysis of the finger motions challenging.
To conquer the challenges, we use DCASW to extract feature and hierarchical DTW to do unlock passwords matching.
Besides, the combination of amplitude and phase information is used to accurately recognize the passwords/patterns.
We implement a prototype of WiPass and evaluate its performance under various environments.
The experimental results show that WiPass achieves the detection accuracy of 85.6% and 74.7% for passwords/patterns detection in LOS and in NLOS scenarios, respectively.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Zhang, Jie& Zheng, Xiaolong& Tang, Zhanyong& Xing, Tianzhang& Chen, Xiaojiang& Fang, Dingyi…[et al.]. 2016. Privacy Leakage in Mobile Sensing: Your Unlock Passwords Can Be Leaked through Wireless Hotspot Functionality. Mobile Information Systems،Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1111648
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Zhang, Jie…[et al.]. Privacy Leakage in Mobile Sensing: Your Unlock Passwords Can Be Leaked through Wireless Hotspot Functionality. Mobile Information Systems No. 2016 (2016), pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1111648
American Medical Association (AMA)
Zhang, Jie& Zheng, Xiaolong& Tang, Zhanyong& Xing, Tianzhang& Chen, Xiaojiang& Fang, Dingyi…[et al.]. Privacy Leakage in Mobile Sensing: Your Unlock Passwords Can Be Leaked through Wireless Hotspot Functionality. Mobile Information Systems. 2016. Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1111648
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1111648