TY - GEN
T1 - Investigating the Robustness of IoT Security Cameras against Cyber Attacks∗
AU - Trabelsi, Zouheir
N1 - Funding Information:
This research work is supported by UAEU-UPAR grant number 31T122.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In recent years, Internet of Things (IoT) become widely used in various domains. Particularly, consumers are increasingly using IoT devices to build smart homes. These IoT devices can collect data and enable users to manage and secure their smart home environment. However, IoT devices are the target of malicious users and activities. Hence, the security is particularly important for IoT based smart home devices. This paper aims to experimentally evaluate the robustness and resilience of a particular type of IoT devices, known as smart home security cameras, against several common cyber attacks. The attack platform is Kali Linux operation system, which is installed with different types of penetration-testing and cyber-attack programs. The experimental results demonstrate clearly that the evaluated smart home security cameras are very vul-nerable to the tested cyber-attacks, and do not deploy built-in efficient security features. As a consequence, this investigation contributes to confirm the belief that most current IoT based smart home devices are designed and built without sufficient security considerations and solutions and may not be very reliable in untrust and unsafe environments.
AB - In recent years, Internet of Things (IoT) become widely used in various domains. Particularly, consumers are increasingly using IoT devices to build smart homes. These IoT devices can collect data and enable users to manage and secure their smart home environment. However, IoT devices are the target of malicious users and activities. Hence, the security is particularly important for IoT based smart home devices. This paper aims to experimentally evaluate the robustness and resilience of a particular type of IoT devices, known as smart home security cameras, against several common cyber attacks. The attack platform is Kali Linux operation system, which is installed with different types of penetration-testing and cyber-attack programs. The experimental results demonstrate clearly that the evaluated smart home security cameras are very vul-nerable to the tested cyber-attacks, and do not deploy built-in efficient security features. As a consequence, this investigation contributes to confirm the belief that most current IoT based smart home devices are designed and built without sufficient security considerations and solutions and may not be very reliable in untrust and unsafe environments.
KW - Denial of Service (DoS) attacks
KW - Internet of Things (IoT)
KW - Kali Linux
KW - Man-in-the-Middle (MiM) attack
KW - Smart home security cameras
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U2 - 10.1109/CIoT53061.2022.9766814
DO - 10.1109/CIoT53061.2022.9766814
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85130500146
T3 - 5th Conference on Cloud and Internet of Things, CIoT 2022
SP - 17
EP - 23
BT - 5th Conference on Cloud and Internet of Things, CIoT 2022
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 5th Conference on Cloud and Internet of Things, CIoT 2022
Y2 - 28 March 2022 through 30 March 2022
ER -