MagAttack: remote app sensing with your phone
Journal
ACM UbiComp 2016
Pages
241-244
Date Issued
2016
Author(s)
Abstract
By tracking changes in electromagnetic radiation footprint emitted from computers using a magnetometer on commodity mobile devices, a malicious attacker can easily learn the secrets of the computer's owner without physically peeping at or hacking into the victim's system. Targeting at Applications and Web browsers, we present MagAttack, which uses the built-in magnetometer on commodity mobile phones to infer which App is running or which webpage the user is browsing on a nearby computer, as well as finer-grained information about victim's interests, habits, etc.
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Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Type
conference paper