Thesis On Iot Devices

The big item in the news lately from a cyber security standpoint has been Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, their frequency and size being the two big sticking points for the media. The one thing that the media tends not to do is explain what a DDoS is, what attack vector was used, realistically all the information that leads to a clear picture of what really happened during the attack. With that this paper will explain the process from beginning to end of a DDoS attack in a way that is easy to understand and hopefully debunks a lot of the misconceptions about DDoS that have been posted in class discussion.

While IoT devices holds much promise, there are still many security issues that need to be addressed. These security issues can have a significant impact on everyday life, such as causing damage, disruption to business operations, and in some cases even loss of life. Having all your devices interconnected using IoT such as lighting, thermostats, doors, and elevators, seems convenient but in fact this poses a great security risk. If these risks are exploited it could disrupt power or lighting which could lead to a loss of life if it were something like a hospital. Addressing these security risks will lead to more efficient and safer to use IoT devices but companies will have to identify them in their devices first (Tankard, 2015).

The purpose of this study will be to develop adequate security strategies and best practices as a guide to add to the knowledge base of current literature on IoT devices. The current research literature on the internet of things indicates that the number of attacks against IoT devices are on the rise. The number of potential attackers is growing at an alarming rate because of the number of IoT devices that are joined to network every day (Abomhara and Kien, 2015). Tools are available to those same potential attackers are much more sophisticated that they have ever been. (p. 66). This study will provide valuable information to IT leaders, service providers, vendors and IoT manufactures.

GPS, drones, spying, and nuclear war are all capabilities of the everyday items around us. These “normal” devices such as an iPhone or computer are all part of an enormous web infrastructure called the internet of things (IOT). The internet of things is a link between the online world and the physical world through connected devices which can achieve physical accomplishments such as taking a pulse. The Internet of things was said to have been discovered in 1999 during a presentation at Procter and Gamble. When Business moguls were trying to find a way to make the internet profitable, they manufactured the term internet of things. Ironically, IOT tracked its usage of term online through “Google Trends”. According to Google, since 2004 IOT was

Once your computer is among the living dead, it becomes a part of a botnet, or a network of other zombie computers” (par. 2). Botnets are designed in order to gather personal information including passwords, credit card details, social security numbers, addresses, and telephone numbers. These data may then be used for crimes including identity theft, frauds, spamming, and other malware distribution. Drozhzhin also stated, “Once a computer is a bot, it begins accepting commands from a centralized command server” (par. 4). As soon as the device become part of a botnet, they can receive commands to launch attacks on other devices, websites, and networks. This is important to know because in order to launch an effective Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, a large number of bots are required. The attack is more effective because the more “zombies” recruited, the easier and faster it is for the attacker to constantly transmit requests and malwares to other computers, thus crashing the site. Additionally, multiple bots sending requests from different locations makes the attack tremendously more difficult for antivirus and antispyware to distinguish a malicious request from an actual consumer’s request. The worst part is, it is almost nearly impossible to

It is explained by the machine's program. Of course, that program is realized in a particular physics and chemistry, and could, perhaps, be deduced from that physics and chemistry. But that does not make the program a physical or chemical property of the machine…. Similarly, I believe that the psychological properties of human beings are not physical and chemical properties of human beings, although they may be realized by physical and chemical properties of human beings. (Putnam, 1975, p.

Allison wanted to emit a purpose that wasting time, energy, and money on products that won’t benefit us is worthless. The purpose in engineering smarter technology, is finding out how it will help someone’s life. One product mentioned, was “The Mimo, a baby monitor built into a onesie”. She explained that it able to connect with other products based on the child that can help parents out but really all of it was just too much of a gimmick. A baby should live his life like every other baby, not having to deal with all the technology being put upon it. This is a product where ideas were put to use to make something that seemed useful when in the actual world there were better products to be made.

Even though the home of the future will bring many benefits to consumers, owning home appliances connected to the internet may pose a security risk. In an article by Adam Turner, titled “Smart technology may make your home a net target”, Turner explains the dangers of using smart home devices. How do these dangers affect smart home technology? To explain the issues, Turner relays the knowledge of AVG security adviser Michael McKinnon. Mckinnon claims that people use most of these devices to access files remotely, giving hackers the opportunity to breach them. After a hacker gains access to a home’s internal network, they can then collect passwords and financial information (Turner 1). The essence of Turner’s argument is that by using internet-connected smart home technology, hackers have an easier means of accessing sensitive information.

I asked about this DDOS attack and was told that you can get someone’s “IP” from their skype name and use a “botnet” to take out their Wi-Fi. I had no idea what an IP was much less a botnet. I figured this idea must just be too complicated for me, I put it aside and just continued to play my game, until one day when I mouthed off to the wrong person. I said one wrong word and was spending the next 30 minutes without any Wi-Fi, not just my computer but the Wi-Fi router itself would not function. After that day I spent all my time researching how this happened, I watched many videos, read many blogs, and joined many forums, trying to get a grasp at this topic. My goal was for my system to never be able to be taken down by these people ever again. With all my hard work I became famous on the Minecraft server because no matter how mad people got, they were not able to find my IP or even my newly installed VPN. My personal information was invisible to the other players and no longer did I have to worry about losing my items from a DDOS attack. I made it my business to help many other players have the same protection I did and pretty soon after I had helped more than 20 people hide their information from attackers. This is the week that sparked my interest in cyber-security and computers. To this day I am fascinated by everything a computer can do from hacking to calculating. Computers are the way of the future and it is important to be able to protect yourself on the internet. DDOS attacks are not nearly as severe as many internet crimes but it is one example of a way in which people can use this machine we use to browse the internet for evil purposes. Ever since that day, I have wanted to build a system that is not susceptible to any form of cyber-attacks and to help other people and businesses do the

We are essentially exposing ourselves and, more importantly, personally identifiable information to a number of cyber threats every time we worked on our laptop. Hackers, often with the help of malicious software, do their best to steal information from personal devices for the benefit of themselves or a third party. EBay, for example, revealed that hackers had managed to steal personal records of 233 million users’ personal information, including usernames, passwords, phone numbers and physical addresses between February and March in 2014. Moreover, damage that derived from cyber-attack also have an impact on national economy, which increase a further risk of living hood of the public. According to the AP, U.S. intelligence officials have said that cyber-crime currently trumps terrorism is the biggest threat to the country’s security. According to research from Arbor Networks, the number of DDoS events, Distributed Denial of Service attack, topping 20GDPs in the first half of 2014, are double that of 2013. With more than 100 attacks at over 100GDPs or higher recorded in the first half of the year in US. Posed by cyber-attack, the devastating impact on individual and the nation has begun to attract attention of the public. Given by IT governance nonprofit ISACA, it was said that 92 percent of respondents felt that advanced persistent

By 25 September 2014, botnets considering PCs exchanged off with experiences in light of the bug were being used by aggressors for appropriated refusal of-organization (DDoS) attacks and shortcoming checking. Kaspersky Labs reported that machines haggled in an attack, named "Thankful Rob", were driving DDoS strikes against three goals, which they didn't identify.On 26 September 2014, a Shellshock-related botnet named "wopbot" was represented, which was being used for a DDoS ambush against Akamai Technologies and to channel the United States Department of

Internet of Things (IoT) are devices that can collect and share data with no human interactions. IoT are machines that connect to other machines. Examples of IoT’s are fitness trackers that report to a smart phone, smart vacuum cleaners that are self- propelled, and Apps for your smart phone that can adjust lighting, temperature or security features at your house when you are away.

The sudden growth in IT investment is linked with the growth of IOT and therefore naturally an era of increased investment comes with increased business opportunities. The following section describes some of the applications of the internet of things and the opportunities in which they will bring.

The topic I will be discussing will focus on is a deployment plan for WDAs and designing an effective user interface for wireless devices. In my paper I will outline a technique for quantifying design and quality assurance for wireless development. The example I will use is a WAP application, you can use the same set of principles and mathematical models to quantify other types of mobile and wireless applications. Here are some of the issues I will be discussing in my topic.

The Internet of Things (IoT) helps us sense meaningful data from the physical world. In recent years, its ability to sense the data has increased tremendously, which increases the prospects of IoT applications useful to humans. Machine learning will play a big part to help IoT derive sense from raw data and deliver useful information.