Categorisation of security threats for smart home appliances

Ayush Gai; Sami Azam; Bharanidharan Shanmugam; Mirjam Jonkman; Friso De Boer

doi:10.1109/ICCCI.2018.8441213

Categorisation of security threats for smart home appliances

Ayush Gai, Sami Azam, Bharanidharan Shanmugam, Mirjam Jonkman, Friso De Boer

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Abstract

IoT (Internet of Things) refers to the daily use ofdevices connected to the Internet that can be controlled by a remote device such as mobile phones. This research focuses to identify and categorize the threats and create threat vectors for IoT based home appliances. Some previous research has been conducted by OWASP to identify IoT device threats, but these studies have not clearly mentioned what devices were tested and what their vulnerabilities were. Smart televisions, home theatres, refrigerators, CCTV, thermostats, kettles and light/bulbs wereselected for testing and examined to identify attacking surface and vulnerabilities. More than 15 attack surfaces and 11 vulnerabilities were found across these devices after conductingthe current research. Possible basic security measures have been discussed, which can be implemented by the user and developer to make smart devices safer.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2018 International Conference on Computer Communication and Informatics, ICCCI 2018
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ
Publisher	IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	1-5
Number of pages	5
Volume	1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-5386-2238-4
ISBN (Print)	978-1-5386-2239-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCCI.2018.8441213
Publication status	Published - 23 Aug 2018
Event	8th International Conference on Computer Communication and Informatics, ICCCI 2018 - Coimbatore, India Duration: 4 Jan 2018 → 6 Jan 2018

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Conference	8th International Conference on Computer Communication and Informatics, ICCCI 2018
Country/Territory	India
City	Coimbatore
Period	4/01/18 → 6/01/18

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Gai, A, Azam, S , Shanmugam, B , Jonkman, M & De Boer, F 2018, Categorisation of security threats for smart home appliances. in 2018 International Conference on Computer Communication and Informatics, ICCCI 2018. vol. 1, 8441213, IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway, NJ, pp. 1-5, 8th International Conference on Computer Communication and Informatics, ICCCI 2018, Coimbatore, India, 4/01/18. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCCI.2018.8441213

Categorisation of security threats for smart home appliances. / Gai, Ayush; Azam, Sami ; Shanmugam, Bharanidharan et al.
2018 International Conference on Computer Communication and Informatics, ICCCI 2018. Vol. 1 Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2018. p. 1-5 8441213.

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