Out-of-device privacy unveiled: Designing and validating the out-of-device privacy scale (odps)

H Farzand, K Marky, M Khamis - Proceedings of the CHI Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
This paper proposes an Out-of-Device Privacy Scale (ODPS)-a reliable, validated
psychometric privacy scale that measures users' importance of out-of-device privacy. In …

ThermoSecure: Investigating the effectiveness of AI-driven thermal attacks on commonly used computer keyboards

N Alotaibi, J Williamson, M Khamis - ACM Transactions on Privacy and …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Thermal cameras can reveal heat traces on user interfaces, such as keyboards. This can be
exploited maliciously to infer sensitive input, such as passwords. While previous work …

In the quest to protect users from {Side-Channel} attacks–a {User-Centred} design space to mitigate thermal attacks on public payment terminals

K Marky, S Macdonald, Y Abdrabou… - 32nd usenix security …, 2023 - usenix.org
Thermal attacks are an emerging threat that enables the reconstruction of user input after
interaction with a device by analysing heat traces. There are several ways to protect users …

Human-centered Behavioral and Physiological Security

F Alt, M Hassib, V Distler - Proceedings of the 2023 New Security …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We propose a paradigm shift in human-centered security research in which users' objective
behavior and physiological states move into focus. This proposal is motivated by the fact that …

Pin scrambler: Assessing the impact of randomized layouts on the usability and security of pins

D Kirkwood, C Tombul, C Firth, F Macdonald… - Proceedings of the 21st …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Randomizing the layout of the keypad has been proposed to improve the security of PIN
entry. However, there has been no empirical quantification of its impact on usability and …

Enhancing Thermal Security of 3D-SiP Systems through Thermal Digital Twin (TDT)

AZ Benelhaouare, A Oukaira, M Oumlaz… - 2024 IEEE Canadian …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thermal attacks targeting large-scale integrated microsystems, such as three-dimensional
package systems (3D-SiP), exploit thermal fluctuations to compromise their security. These …

" What you think is private is no longer"--Investigating the Aftermath of Shoulder Surfing on Smartphones in Everyday Life through the Eyes of the Victims

H Farzand, S Macdonald, K Marky… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Shoulder surfing has been studied extensively, however, it remains unexplored whether and
how it impacts users. Understanding this is important as it determines whether shoulder …

Shoulder Surfing on Mobile Authentication: Perception vis-a-vis Performance from the Attacker's Perspective

K Wang, L Zhou, D Zhang, J Lai - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Shoulder-surfing studies in the context of mobile user authentication have focused on
evaluating the attackers' performance, yet have paid much less attention to their perception …

Conducting and Mitigating Portable Thermal Imaging Attacks on User Authentication using AI-driven Methods

SA Macdonald, NMT Alotaibi, MS Islam… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Thermal cameras have become portable enough to integrate into wearables, such as
glasses, and can be used maliciously to infer passwords observing heat traces left on …

Classification of Authentication Approaches to Stop the Next Breaking: Challenges, Benefits, Drawbacks, Awareness, and Recommendations

M Qbea'h, J Alkaabi, S Almansouri… - … on Computer and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
These days, the scope of a huge number of web, desktop, IoT, cloud and mobile
applications being compromised is rapidly increasing. The attackers exploit weak …