Title
Covert channels using mobile device's magnetic field sensors
Abstract
This paper presents a new covert channel using smartphone magnetic sensors. We show that modern smartphones are capable to detect the magnetic field changes induced by different computer components during I/O operations. In particular, we are able to create a covert channel between a laptop and a mobile device without any additional equipment, firmware modifications or privileged access on either of the devices. We present two encoding schemes for the covert channel communication and evaluate their effectiveness.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/ASPDAC.2016.7428065
2016 21st Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
encoding schemes,laptop,I/O operations,computer components,magnetic field changes,smartphone magnetic sensors,magnetic field sensors,mobile device,covert channels
Magnetic field,Laptop,Computer science,Covert channel,Magnetometer,Electronic engineering,Mobile device,Encoding (memory),Embedded system,Firmware
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2153-6961
7
0.49
References 
Authors
11
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nikolay Matyunin180.83
Jakub Szefer239837.00
Sebastian Biedermann3827.98
Stefan Katzenbeisser 00014496.16