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Security Vulnerabilities of Popular Smart Home Appliances

Authors:
Fida Hussain
Abhaya Induruwa
Man Qi

Keywords: Smart Homes; device vulnerabilities; Smart Home Testbed; Eavesdropping; DoS; MITM attacks

Abstract:
A Smart Home (SH) essentially is a communication network that connects smart devices, sensors and actuators, enabling the owner to locally and remotely access, monitor and control them. However, SHs are currently facing increasing challenges due to the underlying home automation systems, which are affected by network security issues. This paper presents an SH testbed comprising SH devices that employ IEEE 802.11 standard protocol for communication. Comprehensive tests were conducted using the testbed that incorporated popular SH devices with the aim to observe and understand vulnerabilities that exist in smart device networks when they are attacked using different types of attacks, such as Eavesdropping, Denial of Service (DoS), and Man-In-The-Middle (MITM). This paper presents the details of the SH testbed and reports and discusses the findings obtained from these experiments.

Pages: 13 to 19

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2021

Publication date: April 18, 2021

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4413

ISBN: 978-1-61208-837-2

Location: Porto, Portugal

Dates: from April 18, 2021 to April 22, 2021