Out of kilter: Holistic exploitation of denial of service in internet of things

Suhas Setikere, Vinay Sachidananda, Yuval Elovici

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Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) expose various vulnerabilities at different levels. One such exploitable vulnerability is Denial of Service (DoS). In this paper, we showcase our preliminary efforts towards study of various forms of DoS and how it can be exploited in different protocols of IoT. We propose our initial attack and defense framework for IoT and that can perform various forms of DoS on IP and Bluetooth. We show the initial results of DoS vulnerabilities such as Resource Exhaustion and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Packet Injection. In order to understand how resilient is IoT for DoS, we propose a new metric to measure the Resilience against DoS in IoT. We have conducted a real time experimentation with IoT devices in our security IoT testbed. The experiments conducted are for DoS, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) by setting up Mirai and Permanent Denial of Service (PDoS) using BrickerBot on various IoT devices.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSecurity and Privacy in Communication Networks - 14th International Conference, SecureComm 2018, Proceedings
EditorsYingjiu Li, Bing Chang, Sencun Zhu, Raheem Beyah
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages43-52
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783030017002
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event14th International EAI Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, SecureComm 2018 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 8 Aug 201810 Aug 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST
Volume254
ISSN (Print)1867-8211

Conference

Conference14th International EAI Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, SecureComm 2018
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period8/08/1810/08/18

Keywords

  • Denial of service
  • Internet of things
  • Security analysis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications

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