A platform to improve smartphone security and that of other electronic devices was recently presented in Canada in an international conference on security and privacy, the Workshop on Security and Privacy on Internet of Things. The research focuses on “lateral movement attacks,” which happen when “someone tries to take advantage of an electric current producing a magnetic field for illicit purposes—in this case, the attacker tries to extract the private password from the encryption, to which he theoretically should not have access,” explained researcher José María de Fuentes, UC3M Computer Security Lab (COSEC).