SPQR Poster Session
Throughout the summer of 2020, we had ten Undergraduate Interns who worked on various projects. This session is for them to present their work.
View their postersSPQR Lab Manifesto
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The SPQR Lab Team
About the SPQR Group
The SPQR Group at the University of Michigan works broadly on research problems pertaining to embedded security. We explore the research frontiers of computer science, electrical and computer engineering, and healthcare. Our latest projects examine how to protect analog sensors from intentional electromagnetic, acoustic interference, and light injection.
Recent Projects
(View more in our Project page )
Verifiable Decontamination of N95 Masks
It's extremely important for the global health to ensure that front-line healthcare workers have access to a supply of N95 masks while caring for COVID-19 patients. A global shortage of N95 respirator masks has led to the emergency construction of various decontamination systems for reuse of disposable masks worn by healthcare workers. Any decontamination must protect against damage to the masks' filter performance...
SoK: Formalizing Analog Sensor Security
Over the last six years, several papers demonstrated how intentional analog interference based on acoustics, RF, lasers, and other physical modalities could induce faults, influence, or even control the output of sensors. Damage to the availability and integrity of sensor output carries significant risks to safety-critical systems that make automated decisions based on trusted sensor measurement. Established signal processing models use transfer functions to express...
Light Commands
Light Commands is a vulnerability of MEMS microphones that allows attackers to remotely inject inaudible and invisible commands into voice assistants, such as Google assistant, Amazon Alexa, Facebook Portal, and Apple Siri using light. In our paper we demonstrate this effect, successfully using light to inject malicious commands into several voice controlled devices such as smart speakers, tablets, and phones across large distances and through glass windows.
Good Reads
- Grand Challenges for Embedded Security Research in a Connected World
- PyCRA
- On Cuba, Diplomats, Ultrasound, and Intermodulation Distortion
- Pacemaker Recall Exposes National Need for Research and Education in Embedded Security
- The New York Times - It's Possible to Hack a Phone With Sound Waves, Researchers Show
Related Initiatives
- NSF Frontiers Trustworthy Health and Wellness project (THAW)
- Archimedes Center for Medical Device Security
- Protecting Automotive Analog Sensor Security (PASS)
- Strategic Healthcare IT Advanced Research Projects on Security (SHARPS)