Analyzing mobile phone vulnerabilities caused by camera

Author

Longfei Wu ; Xiaojiang Du ; Li Wang ; Xinwen Fu ; Mbouna, Ralph O. ; Kong, Seong G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sei, Temple Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

8-12 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

4126

Lastpage

4130

Abstract

Nowadays mobile phones have been widely used, and Android is one of the most popular mobile operating system. The security issue of Android has caught great concerns among mobile users and researchers. In this paper, we study the vulnerabilities related of phone cameras. Specifically, we discover and present several camera-based attacks including the basic camera attack and advanced passcode inference attacks. We implement these attacks on real phones (with anti-virus software installed) and demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the attacks. Furthermore, a lightweight defense scheme is proposed to secure phones against these attacks.

Keywords

Android (operating system); authorisation; cameras; computer viruses; smart phones; Android; antivirus software; camera-based attacks; lightweight defense scheme; mobile operating system; mobile phone vulnerability analysis; mobile researchers; mobile users; passcode inference attacks; phone camera vulnerabilities; phone security; security issue; Cameras; Electronic mail; Malware; Privacy; Smart phones; Videos; Android; Mobile phones; camera;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2014.7037454

Filename

7037454