Social engineering in the internet of everything
Diane Gan, Ryan Heartfield · Greenwich Academic Literature Archive (University of Greenwich) · 2016
The Internet of Everything is becoming a reality, with fridges, smart TVs, cars, medical monitoring equipment and industrial control systems all communicating via the Internet. There have already been cases where smart toys have been exploited by hackers to steal personal information. Social engineering attacks on these devices which have little or no security are already a reality with hackers being quick to exploit any weakness in cyber space. This article reviews past cases, gives three scenarios which could lead to the owner of an IoT device giving private information to hackers and then proposes defence recommendations.