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Cyber Security and the Internet of Things:
Vulnerabilities, Threats, Intruders
and Attacks
Mohamed Abomhara and Geir M. Køien
Department of Information and Communication Technology,
University of Agder, Norway
Corresponding Authors: {Mohamed.abomhara; geir.koien}@uia.no
Received 14 September 2014; Accepted 17 April 2015;
Publication 22 May 2015
Abstract
Internet of Things (IoT) devices are rapidly becoming ubiquitous while IoT
services are becoming pervasive. Their success has not gone unnoticed and
the number of threats and attacks against IoT devices and services are on the
increase as well. Cyber-attacks are not new to IoT, but as IoT will be deeply
interwoven in our lives and societies, it is becoming necessary to step up
and take cyber defense seriously. Hence, there is a real need to secure IoT,
which has consequently resulted in a need to comprehensively understand the
threats and attacks on IoT infrastructure. This paper is an attempt to classify
threat types, besides analyze and characterize intruders and attacks facing IoT
devices and services.
Keywords: Internet of Things, Cyber-attack, Security threats.
1 Introduction
The recent rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) [1, 2] and its
ability to offer different types of services have made it the fastest growing
technology, with huge impact on social life and business environments. IoT has
Journal of Cyber Security, Vol. 4, 65–88.
doi: 10.13052/jcsm2245-1439.414
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