Research into file-notification attacks on Linux

Sudheendra Raghav Neela, a member of a group of researchers from Graz University of Technology, has announced the release of research into file-notification attacks that would allow spying on user activity on Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows. The group has published a paper with details on the research as well as a web site with demonstrations of the vulnerabilities. On Linux, an attacker can use inotifywatch to monitor a directory to conduct an inter-keystroke timing attack—even if they do not…

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