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Understanding the threats caused by correlating human mobility and smart device sensors

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15K12038
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Information security
Research InstitutionWaseda University

Principal Investigator

Mori Tatsuya  早稲田大学, 理工学術院, 准教授 (60708551)

Research Collaborator WATANABE Takuya  
AKIYAMA Mitsuaki  
YAGI Takeshi  
Project Period (FY) 2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Keywordsセンサー / セキュリティ / プライバシー / 機械学習 / スマートフォン / 攻撃 / 位置情報 / 推定 / サイドチャネル
Outline of Final Research Achievements

We verified the feasibility of a proof-of-concept side-channel attack that identifies a route for a train trip by simply reading smart device sensors: an accelerometer, magnetometer, and gyroscope, which are commonly used by many apps without requiring any permissions. First, by applying a machine-learning technique to the data collected from sensors, we can detect the activity of a user, i.e., walking, in moving vehicle, or other. Next, we extract departure/arrival times of vehicles from the sequence of the detected human activities. Finally, by correlating the detected departure/arrival times of the vehicle with timetables/route maps collected from all the railway companies in the rider’s country, it identifies potential routes that can be used for a trip. We demonstrate that the strategy is feasible through field experiments. Building wrapper APIs that provide many useful functions, while hiding raw data, is a promising approach to thwart sensor-based side-channel attacks.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2016 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (5 results)

All 2017 2015

All Journal Article (2 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 2 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 2 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (2 results) (of which Invited: 1 results) Patent(Industrial Property Rights) (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Tracking the Human Mobility Using Mobile Device Sensors2017

    • Author(s)
      T. Watanabe, M. Akiyama, and T. Mori
    • Journal Title

      IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

      Volume: 印刷中

    • NAID

      130005876017

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] RouteDetector: Sensor-based Positioning System that Exploits Spatio-temporal Regularity of Human Mobility2015

    • Author(s)
      T. Watanabe, M. Akiyama, and T. Mori
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 9th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT ’15)

      Volume: 無し Pages: 1-11

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Presentation] 「攻撃者の視点に立つ」〜情報セキュリティ研究の面白さ〜2017

    • Author(s)
      森達哉
    • Organizer
      IPSJ-ONE
    • Place of Presentation
      名古屋大学
    • Year and Date
      2017-03-18
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] RouteDetector: 9軸センサ情報を用いた位置情報追跡攻撃2015

    • Author(s)
      渡邉卓弥,秋山満昭,森達哉
    • Organizer
      コンピュータセキュリティシンポジウム2015論文集
    • Place of Presentation
      長崎
    • Year and Date
      2015-10-23
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Patent(Industrial Property Rights)] 位置推定装置、位置推定方法および位置推定プログラム2015

    • Inventor(s)
      渡邉、森、他
    • Industrial Property Rights Holder
      渡邉、森、他
    • Industrial Property Rights Type
      特許
    • Filing Date
      2015-07-27
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report

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Published: 2015-04-16   Modified: 2018-03-22  

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