The movement of the hard drive head is enabled by a magnetic field. This magnetic field can be picked up by sensors outside of the disk drive, ...

Jul 16, 2015 · Whenever data is being written to, or read from, the head mechanism has to move, causing disturbance in the magnetic field which we can detect.

A new class of side-channel attacks on computer hard drives is presented that can detect what type of the operating system is booting up or what application ...

In this paper we present a new class of side-channel attacks on computer hard drives. Hard drives contain one or more spinning disks made of a magnetic ...

This paper presents a new covert channel using smartphone magnetic sensors. We show that mod- ern smartphones are capable to detect the magnetic field ...

This paper presents a new covert channel using smartphone magnetic sensors. We show that modern smartphones are capable to detect the magnetic field changes ...

We present two identification attacks that rely on magnetic fields: a malware-based approach that can be carried out by any application installed on a device ...

... {Hard Drive Side-Channel Attacks using Smartphone Magnetic Field Sensors}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Financial Cryptography and Data Security ...

Besides, these sensors have also been used to attack external hardware, such as keyboards and computer hard drives [17]–[19], to infer videos played on TVs [20] ...

This paper examines various media used for air-gap attacks by analyzing different techniques and their essential functions, strengths, and limitations.