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smudge attacks

smudge attacks is the plural of smudge attack.

Meaning of smudge attack

Noun

smudge attack (plural smudge attacks)

  1. (computer security) A method used to crack the password of a touchscreen device by analysing the oily smears left on the device's screen by the user's fingers.
    • Touch screens are touched, so oily residues, or smudges, remain on the screen as a side effect. Latent smudges may be usable to infer recently and frequently touched areas of the screen – a form of information leakage. This paper explores the feasibility of smudge attacks, where an attacker, by...2010 August 9, Adam J. Aviv, Katherine Gibson, Evan Mossop, Matt Blaze, Jonathan M. Smith, “Smudge Attacks on Smartphone Touch Screens”, in WOOT '10: 4th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies...

Questions about smudge attacks

What is smudge attacks the plural of?
Smudge attacks is the plural of smudge attack.

Words near smudge attacks in the dictionary

  1. Smuckers
  2. SMUD
  3. Smuda
  4. smudge
  5. smudge attack
  6. smudge attacks
  7. smudge bowl
  8. smudge cell
  9. smudge cells
  10. smudge pot
  11. smudge pots

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