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The IoT (Internet of Things) technology has been widely adopted in recent years and has profoundly changed the people's daily lives. However, in the meantime, such a fast-growing technology has also introduced new privacy issues, which need…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Shuaike Dong , Zhou Li , Di Tang , Jiongyi Chen , Menghan Sun , Kehuan Zhang

The lack of security measures in the Internet of Things (IoT) devices and their persistent online connectivity give adversaries an opportunity to target them or abuse them as intermediary targets for larger attacks such as distributed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Jinchun Choi , Afsah Anwar , Hisham Alasmary , Jeffrey Spaulding , DaeHun Nyang , Aziz Mohaisen

The proliferation of smart home Internet of Things (IoT) devices presents unprecedented challenges for preserving privacy within the home. In this paper, we demonstrate that a passive network observer (e.g., an Internet service provider)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Noah Apthorpe , Danny Yuxing Huang , Dillon Reisman , Arvind Narayanan , Nick Feamster

With an increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices present in homes, there is a rise in the number of potential information leakage channels and their associated security threats and privacy risks. Despite a long history of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Vadim Safronov , Anna Maria Mandalari , Daniel J. Dubois , David Choffnes , Hamed Haddadi

Understanding network traffic characteristics of IoT devices plays a critical role in improving both the performance and security of IoT devices, including IoT device identification, classification, and anomaly detection. Although a number…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Md Mainuddin , Zhenhai Duan , Yingfei Dong

The rapid expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, particularly in smart home environments, has introduced considerable security and privacy concerns due to their persistent connectivity and interaction with cloud services. Despite…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Fabio Palmese , Anna Maria Mandalari , Hamed Haddadi , Alessandro Enrico Cesare Redondi

We introduce new tools and vantage points to develop and integrate proactive techniques to attract IPv6 scan traffic, thus enabling its analysis. By deploying the largest-ever IPv6 proactive telescope in a production ISP network, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Hammas Bin Tanveer , Wai Sun Chan , Ricky K. P. Mok , Sebastian Kappes , Philipp Richter , Oliver Gasser , John Ronan , Arthur Berger , kc Claffy

The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has grown exponentially in recent years, introducing significant security challenges. Accurate identification of the types of IoT devices and their associated actions through network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Reza Ryan , Napoleon Paciente , Cahil Youngs , Nickson Karie , Qian Li , Nasim Ferdosian

In this paper, a dataset of IoT network traffic is presented. Our dataset was generated by utilising the Gotham testbed, an emulated large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) network designed to provide a realistic and heterogeneous environment…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Othmane Belarbi , Theodoros Spyridopoulos , Eirini Anthi , Omer Rana , Pietro Carnelli , Aftab Khan

Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the technological advancements of the twenty-first century which can improve living standards. However, it also imposes new types of security challenges, including device authentication, traffic types…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Rajarshi Roy Chowdhury , Debashish Roy , Pg Emeroylariffion Abas

Nowadays, the Internet of Things (IoT) is widely employed, and its usage is growing exponentially because it facilitates remote monitoring, predictive maintenance, and data-driven decision making, especially in the healthcare and industrial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Silvia Lucia Sanna , Diego Soi , Davide Maiorca , Giorgio Giacinto

With the increase of IoT devices and technologies coming into service, Malware has risen as a challenging threat with increased infection rates and levels of sophistication. Without strong security mechanisms, a huge amount of sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Gueltoum Bendiab , Stavros Shiaeles , Abdulrahman Alruban , Nicholas Kolokotronis

IoT devices particularly microcontrollers are challenged by their inherent limitations in processing capabilities, memory capacity, and energy conservation. Securing communication within IoT networks is further complicated by the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Vasilis Ieropoulos , Eirini Anthi , Theodoros Spyridopoulos , Pete Burnap , Aftab Khan , Pietro Carnelli

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

Billions of sensors are expected to be connected to the Internet through the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Many of these sensors will primarily be connected using wireless technologies powered using batteries as their sole…

An open measurement problem in IoT security is whether scan-observable network configurations encode population-level exposure risk beyond individual devices. An analysis of internet-exposed IoT endpoints using a controlled multi-country…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Richelle Williams , Fernando Koch

Behavioral transparency for Internet-of-Things (IoT) networked assets involves two distinct yet interconnected tasks: (a) characterizing device types by discerning the patterns exhibited in their network traffic, and (b) assessing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Savindu Wannigama , Arunan Sivanathan , Ayyoob Hamza , Hassan Habibi Gharakheili

The growing popularity of Internet-of-Things (IoT) has created the need for network-based traffic anomaly detection systems that could identify misbehaving devices. In this work, we propose a lightweight technique, IoT-guard, for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Ibbad Hafeez , Aaron Yi Ding , Markku Antikainen , Sasu Tarkoma

This paper intends to detect IoT malicious attacks through deep learning models and demonstrates a comprehensive evaluation of the deep learning and graph-based models regarding malicious network traffic detection. The models particularly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Nikesh Prajapati , Bimal Karki , Saroj Gopali , Akbar Siami Namin

With the rapid expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) networks, detecting malicious traffic in real-time has become a critical cybersecurity challenge. This research addresses the detection challenges by presenting a comprehensive empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Jiaqi Chen , Rongbin Ye