Cybersecurity attacks on smart home during Covid-19 pandemic

Roberto O. Andrade; Ivan Ortiz-Garces; Maria Cazares

doi:10.1109/WorldS450073.2020.9210363

Cybersecurity attacks on smart home during Covid-19 pandemic

Roberto O. Andrade
, Ivan Ortiz-Garces
, Maria Cazares

Research Group on Spatial Data Infrastructure Artificial Intelligence Geoportals and Applied Computing (IDE IA GEO CA)

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

41 Scopus citations

Abstract

COVID-19 has generated that dynamics in the context of cybersecurity change significantly, due to the displacing of activities of organizations in the city to home in telework mode. The cybersecurity architecture at home does not have the same levels of security as in organizations, even more if the house has been developed under a smart infrastructure (smart home) scheme, the cybersecurity attack surface expands. This context could be one of the reasons why the number of attacks has increased significantly to more than 35%. VPN solutions are uses to protect telecommuting communications but security attacks exploit vulnerabilities of home-equipment and people, so VPN solutions could reduce their efficiency. Attackers have focused on social engineering attacks that use the concerns generated by the covid-19 pandemic to be more effective in their attacks. This study presents an analysis of cybersecurity attacks that have appeared during this pandemic and how it forces to change defense strategies in cybersecurity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security and Sustainability, WS4 2020
Editors	Xin-She Yang, Simon James Fong, Segundo Moises Toapanta, Ion Andronache, Niko Phillips
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	398-404
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728168234
ISBN (Print)	9781728168234
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/WorldS450073.2020.9210363
State	Published - Jul 2020
Event	2020 World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security and Sustainability, WS4 2020 - Virtual, London, United Kingdom Duration: 27 Jul 2020 → 28 Jul 2020

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Name	Proceedings of the World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security and Sustainability, WS4 2020

Conference

Conference	2020 World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security and Sustainability, WS4 2020
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Virtual, London
Period	27/07/20 → 28/07/20

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© 2020 IEEE.

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Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

Cybersecurity
Phishing
Smart city
Social engineering

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Andrade, R. O., Ortiz-Garces, I., & Cazares, M. (2020). Cybersecurity attacks on smart home during Covid-19 pandemic. In X.-S. Yang, S. J. Fong, S. M. Toapanta, I. Andronache, & N. Phillips (Eds.), Proceedings of the World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security and Sustainability, WS4 2020 (pp. 398-404). Article 9210363 (Proceedings of the World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security and Sustainability, WS4 2020). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/WorldS450073.2020.9210363

Andrade, Roberto O. ; Ortiz-Garces, Ivan ; Cazares, Maria. / Cybersecurity attacks on smart home during Covid-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security and Sustainability, WS4 2020. editor / Xin-She Yang ; Simon James Fong ; Segundo Moises Toapanta ; Ion Andronache ; Niko Phillips. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020. pp. 398-404 (Proceedings of the World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security and Sustainability, WS4 2020).

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Andrade, RO, Ortiz-Garces, I & Cazares, M 2020, Cybersecurity attacks on smart home during Covid-19 pandemic. in X-S Yang, SJ Fong, SM Toapanta, I Andronache & N Phillips (eds), Proceedings of the World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security and Sustainability, WS4 2020., 9210363, Proceedings of the World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security and Sustainability, WS4 2020, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 398-404, 2020 World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security and Sustainability, WS4 2020, Virtual, London, United Kingdom, 27/07/20. https://doi.org/10.1109/WorldS450073.2020.9210363

Cybersecurity attacks on smart home during Covid-19 pandemic. / Andrade, Roberto O.; Ortiz-Garces, Ivan; Cazares, Maria.
Proceedings of the World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security and Sustainability, WS4 2020. ed. / Xin-She Yang; Simon James Fong; Segundo Moises Toapanta; Ion Andronache; Niko Phillips. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020. p. 398-404 9210363 (Proceedings of the World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security and Sustainability, WS4 2020).

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Andrade RO, Ortiz-Garces I, Cazares M. Cybersecurity attacks on smart home during Covid-19 pandemic. In Yang XS, Fong SJ, Toapanta SM, Andronache I, Phillips N, editors, Proceedings of the World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security and Sustainability, WS4 2020. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2020. p. 398-404. 9210363. (Proceedings of the World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security and Sustainability, WS4 2020). doi: 10.1109/WorldS450073.2020.9210363

Cybersecurity attacks on smart home during Covid-19 pandemic

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