Physical Side-Channel Attacks against Intermittent Devices

MO Ozmen, H Farrukh, ZB Celik - Proceedings on Privacy …, 2024 - petsymposium.org
Intermittent (batteryless) devices operate solely using energy harvested from their
environment. These devices turn on when they have energy and turn off during energy …

PingPong: Packet-level signatures for smart home device events

R Trimananda, J Varmarken, A Markopoulou… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Smart home devices are vulnerable to passive inference attacks based on network traffic,
even in the presence of encryption. In this paper, we present PINGPONG, a tool that can …

Uncharted Territory: Energy Attacks in the Battery-less Internet of Things

L Mottola, A Hameed, T Voigt - arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.08224, 2023 - arxiv.org
We study how ambient energy harvesting may be used as an attack vector in the battery-less
Internet of Things (IoT). Battery-less IoT devices rely on ambient energy harvesting and are …

Preserving contextual privacy for smart home IoT devices with dynamic traffic shaping

J Brahma, D Sadhya - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Internet of Things (IoT) enables physical devices embedded with sensors, software, and
other technologies to interoperate and exchange data with other systems over the Internet …

I know what you type: Leaking user privacy via novel frequency-based side-channel attacks

R Song, Y Song, S Gao, B Xiao… - 2018 IEEE Global …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Smartphone sensors have been applied to record the movement of users for healthy use.
However, the motion sensor readings recorded by malicious applications can be utilized as …

Detecting privacy leakage of smart home devices through traffic analysis

T Yang, G Zhang, Y Li, Y Yang… - Security and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Under the management of the Internet of Things platform, smart home devices can be
operated remotely by users and greatly facilitate people's life. Currently, smart home devices …

Zleaks: Passive inference attacks on Zigbee based smart homes

N Shafqat, DJ Dubois, D Choffnes, A Schulman… - … Conference on Applied …, 2022 - Springer
Zigbee is an energy-efficient wireless IoT protocol that is increasingly being deployed in
smart home settings. In this work, we analyze the privacy guarantees of Zigbee protocol …

Characterizing everyday misuse of smart home devices

P Moh, P Datta, N Warford, A Bates… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Exploration of Internet of Things (IoT) security often focuses on threats posed by external
and technically-skilled attackers. While it is important to understand these most extreme …

Defending against packet-size side-channel attacks in IoT networks

S Xiong, AD Sarwate… - 2018 IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motivated by privacy issues in the Internet of Things (IoT), we generalize a previously
proposed privacy-preserving packet obfuscation scheme to guarantee differential privacy …

Spying on the smart home: Privacy attacks and defenses on encrypted iot traffic

N Apthorpe, D Reisman, S Sundaresan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
The growing market for smart home IoT devices promises new conveniences for consumers
while presenting new challenges for preserving privacy within the home. Many smart home …