On the feasibility of side-channel attacks with brain-computer interfaces

Proceedings of the 21st USENIX Security Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 143-158

  Martinovic, Ivan ^a   Davies, Doug ^b   Frank, Mario ^b   Perito, Daniele ^b   Ros, Tomas ^c   Song, Dawn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); COMPUTER CRIME; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SIDE CHANNEL ATTACK; SMARTPHONES;

APPLICATION DEVELOPERS; APPLICATION STORES; ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY; GUESSING ATTACKS; PRIVATE INFORMATION; SECRET INFORMATION; SECURITY IMPLICATIONS; SECURITY RISKS;

BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 85076227478     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (39)

1. ABOOTALEBI, V., MORADI, M. H., AND KHALILZADEH, M. A. A new approach for EEG feature extraction in P300-based lie detection. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 94 (April 2009), 48–57.
2. CAMPBELL, A., CHOUDHURY, T., HU, S., LU, H., MUKERJEE, M. K., RABBI, M., AND RAIZADA, D. Neurophone: brain-mobile phone interface using a wireless EEG headset. In Proceedings of the Second ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networking, Systems, and Applications on Mobile Handhelds (2010), MobiHeld’10, pp. 3–8.
3. COMMITTEE TO REVIEW THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE ON THE POLYGRAPH. The Polygraph and Lie Detection. Board on Behavioral Cognitive and Sensory Sciences, National Research Council. The National Academies Press, 2003.
4. DELORME, A., AND MAKEIG, S. EEGLAB: an open source toolbox for analysis of single-trial eeg dynamics including independent component analysis. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 134, 1 (2004), 9–21.
5. EMOTIV SYSTEMS. www.emotiv.com. (last accessed: Feb. 12 2012).
6. ENGEL, J., KUHL, D. E., PHELPS, M. E., AND CRANDALL, P. H. Comparative localization of foci in partial epilepsy by PCT and EEG. Annals of Neurology 12, 6 (1982), 529–537.
7. FARWELL, L., AND DONCHIN, E. Talking off the top of your head: toward a mental prosthesis utilizing event-related brain potentials. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 70, 6 (1988), 510 – 523.
8. FARWELL, L., AND SMITH, S. Using brain mermer testing to detect knowledge despite efforts to conceal. Journal of Forensic Sciences 46, 2 (Jan 2001), 135–43.
9. FISCHER, R. A. The use of multiple measurements in taxonomic problems. Annals of Human Genetics 7, 2 (1936), 179–188.
10. FLOR-HENRY, P., LANG, R., KOLES, Z., AND FRENZEL, R. Quantitative EEG studies of pedophilia. International Journal of Psychophysiology 10, 3 (1991), 253 – 258.
11. FRIEDMAN, J., HASTIE, T., AND TIBSHIRANI, R. Additive logistic regression: a statistical view of boosting. Annals of Statistics 28 (1998), 2000.
12. FRIEDMAN, J. H. Greedy function approximation: A gradient boosting machine. Annals of Statistics 29 (2000), 1189–1232.
13. GAMER, M. Does the guilty actions test allow for differentiating guilty participants from informed innocents? a re-examination. International Journal of Psychophysiology 76 (apr 2010), 19–24.
14. GRUZELIER, J., EGNER, T., AND VERNON, D. Validating the efficacy of neurofeedback for optimising performance. Event-Related Dynamics of BrainOscillations: ProgressinBrainResearch159 (2006), 421–431.
15. GUPTA, P., AND GAO, D. Fighting coercion attacks in key generation using skin conductance. In Proceedings of the 19th USENIX Conference on Security (2010), USENIX Security’10, pp. 30–30.
16. HALGREN, E., MARINKOVIC, K., AND CHAUVEL, P. Generators of the late cognitive potentials in auditory and visual oddball tasks. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 106, 2 (1998), 156 – 164.
17. HOFFMANN, U., GARCIA, G., VESIN, J.-M., DISERENS, K., AND EBRAHIMI, T. A boosting approach to P300 detection with application to brain-computer interfaces. In 2nd International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (2005), pp. 97 –100.
18. INZLICHT, M., MCGREGOR, I., HIRSH, J. B., AND NASH, K. Neural markers of religious conviction. Psychological Science 20, 3 (2009), 385–392.
19. J. MALMIVUO AND R. PLONSEY. Bioelectromagnetism: Principles and applications of bioelectric and biomagnetic fields. http://www.bem.fi/book/ (last accessed: Feb. 16 2012).
20. KROPOTOV, J. D., GRIN-YATSENKO, V. A., PONOMAREV, V. A., CHUTKO, L. S., YAKOVENKO, E. A., AND NIKISHENA, I. S. ERPs correlates of EEG relative beta training in ADHD children. International Journal of Psychophysiology 55 (2004), 23–34.
21. KRUSIENSKI, D. J., SELLERS, E. W., CABESTAING, F., BAYOUDH, S., MCFARLAND, D. J., VAUGHAN, T. M., AND WOLPAW, J. R. A comparison of classification techniques for the P300 Speller. Journal of Neural Engineering 3, 4 (Dec. 2006), 299–305.
22. LIN, C.-T., WU, R.-C., LIANG, S.-F., CHAO, W., CHEN, Y.-J., AND JUNG, T.-P. EEG-based drowsiness estimation for safety driving using independent component analysis. IEEE Transactions On Circuits and Systems. Part I: Regular Papers (2005), 2726–2738.
23. MARCEL, S., AND MILLAN, J. Person authentication using brainwaves (EEG) and maximum a posteriori model adaptation. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 29, 4 (April 2007), 743 –752.
24. MEIJER, E., SMULDERS, F., AND WOLF, A. The contribution of mere recognition to the P300 effect in a concealed information test. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback 34 (2009), 221–226.
25. NEUROSKY INC. www.neurosky.com. (last accessed: Feb. 11 2012).
26. NIJHOLT, A. BCI for games: A ‘state of the art’ survey. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Entertainment Computing (2009), ICEC’08, pp. 225–228.
27. POLICH, J. Updating P300: An integrative theory of P3a and P3b. Clinical Neurophysiology 118, 10 (2007), 2128 – 2148.
28. PORTAS, C. M., KRAKOW, K., ALLEN, P., JOSEPHS, O., ARMONY, J. L., AND FRITH, C. D. Auditory processing across the sleep-wake cycle: Simultaneous EEG and fMRI monitoring in humans. Neuron 28, 3 (2000), 991 – 999.
29. POULOS, M., RANGOUSSI, M., CHRISSIKOPOULOS, V., AND EVANGELOU, A. Parametric person identification from the EEG using computational geometry. In The 6th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (Sep 1999), vol. 2, pp. 1005 –1008 vol.2.
30. REVETT, K., AND MAGALHES, S. T. Cognitive biometrics: Challenges for the future. In Global Security, Safety, and Sustainability, vol. 92. 2010, pp. 79–86.
31. ROS, T., MOSELEY, M. J., BLOOM, P. A., BENJAMIN, L., PARKINSON, L. A., AND GRUZELIER, J. H. Optimizing microsurgical skills with EEG neurofeedback. BMC Neuroscience, 1 (2009), 10–87.
32. ROSENFELD, J. P., BIROSCHAK, J. R., AND FUREDY, J. J. P300-based detection of concealed autobiographical versus incidentally acquired information in target and non-target paradigms. International Journal of Psychophysiology 60, 3 (2006), 251 – 259.
33. ROSENFELD, J. P., AND LABKOVSKY, E. New P300-based protocol to detect concealed information: Resistance to mental countermeasures against only half the irrelevant stimuli and a possible ERP indicator of countermeasures. Psychophysiology 47, 6 (2010), 1002–1010.
34. ROSENFELD, J. P., SOSKING, M., BOSH, G., AND RYAN, A. Simple, effective countermeasures to P300-based tests of detection of concealed information. Psychophysiology 41, 1 (2004), 205–219.
35. ROSENFELD, J. P., SOSKINS, M., BOSH, G., AND RYAN, A. Simple, effective countermeasures to P300-based tests of detection of concealed information. Psychophysiology 41 (mar 2004), 208.
36. THORPE, J., VAN OORSCHOT, P. C., AND SOMAYAJI, A. Pass-thoughts: authenticating with our minds. In Proceedings of the 2005 Workshop on New Security Paradigms (New York, NY, USA, 2005), NSPW’05, ACM, pp. 45–56.
37. VAN VLIET, M., MHL, C., REUDERINK, B., AND POEL, M. Guessing what’s on your mind: Using the n400 in brain computer interfaces. vol. 6334. 2010, pp. 180–191. 10.1007/978-3-642-15314-3 17.
38. WAISMANN, R., FENWICK, P., WILSON, G., HEWETT, D., AND LUMSDEN, J. EEG responses to visual erotic stimuli in men with normal and paraphilic interests. Archives of Sexual Behavior 32 (2003), 135–144. 10.1023/A:1022448308791.
39. WILSON, G. F., AND RUSSELL, C. A. Operator functional state classification using multiple psychophysiological features in an air traffic control task. The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics 45, 3 (2003), 381–389.