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Security researchers are warning that the technology underpinning many smart city deployments is susceptible to a range of cyber-attacks, enabling hackers to sabotage infrastructure in potentially life-threatening raids.
IOActive’s latest research paper covers LoRaWAN, or the Long-Range Wide Area Network protocol which many low-powered IoT devices use to connect to the internet in scenarios such as smart cities, industrial IoT, smart homes, utilities, vehicle tracking and healthcare.
It claimed that the root keys used to encrypt communications between smart devices, gateways and network servers are poorly protected.
Hackers could extract keys by reverse engineering device firmware, grab hard-coded keys that ship with some open source LoRaWAN libraries, compromise vulnerable LoRaWAN network servers, or even guess the keys in some circumstances, the report claimed.
Once encryption keys are in their possession, the black hats could launch denial of service attacks, or replace legitimate with false comms data. This could cause connected infrastructure to break or even explode, putting lives at risk, IOActive claimed..
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
https://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Smart+Home
https://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=SHODAN+Search+Engine
https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Internet+of+Things
https://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=smart-TV
https://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Internet+of+things
Security researchers are warning that the technology underpinning many smart city deployments is susceptible to a range of cyber-attacks, enabling hackers to sabotage infrastructure in potentially life-threatening raids.
IOActive’s latest research paper covers LoRaWAN, or the Long-Range Wide Area Network protocol which many low-powered IoT devices use to connect to the internet in scenarios such as smart cities, industrial IoT, smart homes, utilities, vehicle tracking and healthcare.
It claimed that the root keys used to encrypt communications between smart devices, gateways and network servers are poorly protected.
Hackers could extract keys by reverse engineering device firmware, grab hard-coded keys that ship with some open source LoRaWAN libraries, compromise vulnerable LoRaWAN network servers, or even guess the keys in some circumstances, the report claimed.
Once encryption keys are in their possession, the black hats could launch denial of service attacks, or replace legitimate with false comms data. This could cause connected infrastructure to break or even explode, putting lives at risk, IOActive claimed..
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
https://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Smart+Home
https://globaleducationandsocialmedia.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/why-is-it-a-must-to-have-basics-knowledge-of-cyber-security-in-a-connected-technology-world/
https://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=SHODAN+Search+Engine
https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Internet+of+Things
https://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=smart-TV
https://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Internet+of+things