Is your computer mouse eavesdropping on you?

The short answer is: probably not, but theoretically it’s possible. Researchers at the University of California found a method they called Mic-E-Mouse, which turns your computer mouse into a spy that can listen in on your conversations. The method uses high-performance optical sensors in optical...

New Mic-E-Mouse Attack Shows Computer Mice Can Capture Conversations

Security researchers at UC Irvine reveal the 'Mic-E-Mouse' attack, showing how high-DPI optical sensors in modern mice can detect desk vibrations and reconstruct user speech with high accuracy. Learn how this side-channel vulnerability affects your privacy...

HVAC-EAR: Eavesdropping Human Speech Using HVAC Systems

Pressure sensors are widely integrated into modern Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning HVAC systems. As they are sensitive to acoustic pressure, they can be a source of eavesdropping. This paper introduces HVAC-EAR, which reconstructs intelligible speech from low-resolution, noisy pressure...

Invisible Ears at Your Fingertips: Acoustic Eavesdropping Via Mouse Sensors

Modern optical mouse sensors, with their advanced precision and high responsiveness, possess an often overlooked vulnerability: they can be exploited for side-channel attacks. This paper introduces Mic-E-Mouse, the first-ever side-channel attack that targets high-performance optical mouse sensors...

Reconstructing Intelligible Speech from the Pressure Sensor Data in HVACs

Pressure sensors are an integrated component of modern Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning HVAC systems. As these pressure sensors operate within the 0-10 Pa range, support high sampling frequencies of 0.5-2 kHz, and are often placed close to human proximity, they can be used to eavesdrop ...