Apu Kapadia - Indiana University
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Soundcomber: A Stealthy and Context-Aware Sound Trojan for Smartphones
Nov 30, 2011
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Abstract
We introduce Soundcomber, a "sensory malware" for smartphones that uses the microphone to steal private information from phone conversations. Soundcomber is lightweight and stealthy. It uses targeted profiles to locally analyze portions of speech likely to contain information such as credit card numbers. It evades known defenses by transferring small amounts of private data to the malware server utilizing smartphone-specific covert channels. Additionally, we present a general defensive architecture that prevents such sensory malware attacks.About the Speaker
Prof. Kapadia is interested in topics related to systems' security and privacy. He is particularly interested in privacy-enhancing technologies such as anonymizing networks, usable models and policy languages for privacy, security in peer-to-peer networks, and applied cryptography.j
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