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Security of MICA*-based wireless sensor networks

CVRČEK Daniel. Security of MICA*-based wireless sensor networks. In: 25th Chaos Communication Congress. Berlin, 2008, p. 5.
Czech title
Security of MICA*-based wireless sensor networks
Type
conference paper
Language
english
Authors
Keywords

Wireless network, zigbee, security, attack

Abstract
Firstly, we mention an initial qualitative risk assessment, carried out by interviewing the operating manager of a large suspension bridge and a contractor responsible for part of a large subway tunnel network who want to use wireless sensor networks. The core of the talk deals with assessing the practical security of the particular COTS system adopted by our team, the Crossbow MICAz motes running TinyOS or XMesh, together with the Stargate gateway: we designed and implemented a variety of attacks on this system and we discuss the security problems we found, together with appropriate fixes where possible. While some of our attacks exploit generally known vulnerabilities, others like selective jamming and power exhaustion through routing table manipulation are original and interesting in their own right. In section we also demonstrate how an attacker can undetectably alter messages in an IEEE 802.15.4 radio environment.
Annotation
Published
2008
Pages
5
Proceedings
25th Chaos Communication Congress
Conference
25th Chaos Communication Congress, Berlin, DE
Place
Berlin, DE
BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{FITPUB8783,
   author = "Daniel Cvr\v{c}ek",
   title = "Security of MICA*-based wireless sensor networks",
   pages = 5,
   booktitle = "25th Chaos Communication Congress",
   year = 2008,
   location = "Berlin, DE",
   language = "english",
   url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/8783"
}
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