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Internet of Things (IoT) is the new industrial slogan for connecting intelligent and unintelligent devices to the web. The problem of security of data transfer, interoperability of different proposed methodologies, the ubiquity of Wi-Fi and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Stephen Ugwuanyi , James Irvine

A honeypot is a type of security facility deliberately created to be probed, attacked and compromised. It is often used for protecting production systems by detecting and deflecting unauthorized accesses. It is also useful for investigating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-26 Wenjun Fan , Zhihui Du , David Fernandez , Victor A. Villagra

Internet of Things (IoT) has brought along immense benefits to our daily lives encompassing a diverse range of application domains that we regularly interact with, ranging from healthcare automation to transport and smart environments.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Mengmeng Ge , Naeem Firdous Syed , Xiping Fu , Zubair Baig , Antonio Robles-Kelly

Critical Infrastructure (CI) is prone to cyberattacks. Several techniques have been developed to protect CI against such attacks. In this work, we describe a honeypot based on a cyber twin for a water treatment plant. The honeypot is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Muhammad Azmi Umer , Zhan Xuna , Yan Lin Aung , Aditya P. Mathur , Jianying Zhou

Network infrastructure in a production environment is increasingly targeted by attackers every day. Many resources and services now rely on the internet, making network infrastructure one of the most critical parts to protect, as it hosts…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Nawshad Ahmed Evan , Md Raihan Uddin

The ubiquity and pervasiveness of modern Internet of Things (IoT) devices opens up vast possibilities for novel applications, but simultaneously also allows spying on, and collecting data from, unsuspecting users to a previously unseen…

A large majority of cheap Internet of Things (IoT) devices that arrive brand new, and are configured with out-of-the-box settings, are not being properly secured by the manufactures, and are vulnerable to existing malware lurking on the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Christopher Kelly , Nikolaos Pitropakis , Sean McKeown , Costas Lambrinoudakis

A myriad of IoT devices such as bulbs, switches, speakers in a smart home environment allow users to easily control the physical world around them and facilitate their living styles through the sensors already embedded in these devices.…

The lack of security measures among the Internet of Things (IoT) devices and their persistent online connection gives adversaries a prime opportunity to target them or even abuse them as intermediary targets in larger attacks such as…

Denial of Service (DoS) attacks constitute a major security threat to today's Internet. This challenge is especially pertinent to the Internet of Things (IoT) as devices have less computing power, memory and security mechanisms to mitigate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Luca Arnaboldi , Charles Morrisset

The Internet of Things (IoT) relies on resource-constrained devices deployed in unprotected environments. Given their constrained nature, IoT systems are vulnerable to security attacks. Data provenance, which tracks the origin and flow of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Omair Faraj , David Megias , Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro

The Internet of Things (IoT) has enabled a wide range of sectors to interact effectively with their consumers in order to deliver seamless services and products. Despite the widespread availability of (IoT) devices and their Internet…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Ghassan Samara , Ruzayn Quaddoura , Mooad Imad Al-Shalout , AL-Qawasmi Khaled , Ghadeer Al Besani

Permissionless distributed ledgers provide a promising approach to deal with the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm. Since IoT devices mostly generate data transactions and micropayments, distributed ledgers that use fees to regulate the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Vidal Attias , Luigi Vigneri , Vassil Dimitrov

The Internet of Things (IoT) connects everyday objects including a vast array of sensors, actuators, and smart devices, referred to as things to the Internet, in an intelligent and pervasive fashion. This connectivity gives rise to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Mahmoud Elkhodr , Seyed Shahrestani , Hon Cheung

Edge computing-based Next-Generation Wireless Networks (NGWN)-IoT offer enhanced bandwidth capacity for large-scale service provisioning but remain vulnerable to evolving cyber threats. Existing intrusion detection and prevention methods…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yazan Otoum , Arghavan Asad , Amiya Nayak

We present a new machine learning-based attack that exploits network patterns to detect the presence of smart IoT devices and running services in the WiFi radio spectrum. We perform an extensive measurement campaign of data collection, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Ahmed Mohamed Hussain , Gabriele Oligeri , Thiemo Voigt

The development and implementation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices have been accelerated dramatically in recent years. As a result, a super-network is required to handle the massive volumes of data collected and transmitted to these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Reem M. Alzhrani , Mohammed A. Alliheedi

The proliferation of IoT devices which can be more easily compromised than desktop computers has led to an increase in the occurrence of IoT based botnet attacks. In order to mitigate this new threat there is a need to develop new methods…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Yair Meidan , Michael Bohadana , Yael Mathov , Yisroel Mirsky , Dominik Breitenbacher , Asaf Shabtai , Yuval Elovici

Resource constrained Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices are highly likely to be compromised by attackers because strong security protections may not be suitable to be deployed. This requires an alternative approach to protect vulnerable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Mengmeng Ge , Jin-Hee Cho , Dong Seong Kim , Gaurav Dixit , Ing-Ray Chen

The security pitfalls of IoT devices make it easy for the attackers to exploit the IoT devices and make them a part of a botnet. Once hundreds of thousands of IoT devices are compromised and become the part of a botnet, the attackers use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Faisal Hussain , Syed Ghazanfar Abbas , Ubaid U. Fayyaz , Ghalib A. Shah , Abdullah Toqeer , Ahmad Ali