ACCessory: Password inference using accelerometers on smartphones

HotMobile 2012 - 13th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Owusu, Emmanuel ^a   Han, Jun ^a   Das, Sauvik ^a   Perrig, Adrian ^a   Zhang, Joy ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Keystroke inference; Mobile phone; Sensor malware; Side channel attack

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER MEASUREMENT; KEYSTROKE INFERENCE; MALWARES; ON CURRENTS; SIDE CHANNEL ATTACK; SIDE-CHANNEL; TOUCH-SCREEN KEYBOARDS;

MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE PHONES; SENSORS; SMARTPHONES;

ACCELEROMETERS;

EID: 84860294696     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2162081.2162095     Document Type: Conference Paper

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