Vulnerabilities of Smart Homes
Suchandra Datta · Advances in information security, privacy, and ethics book series · 2020
The concept of internet of things involves the establishment of ubiquitous computing devices that seamlessly integrate with our living environments, being interconnected via networks to gather information about the surroundings so as to enable the devices to interact with the ambient environment in favorable ways. With the growth of this concept and subsequent development of smart homes, it is to be borne in mind that security is of the utmost importance in such scenarios. In this chapter, the authors highlight the various vulnerabilities prevalent in smart homes, which might be exploited by unscrupulous individuals to launch cyberattacks.