Security threats of application programming interface (API's) in internet of things (IoT) communications
Shayma Ahmed Altayaran, Wael Mohamed Elmedany · IET conference proceedings. · 2022
As technology grows, more and more devices are connected. Most of these devices are called the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT is expanding in various domains, from general health care and massive industrial operation devices such as cars to intelligent devices and mobility for environment monitoring and home automation such as intelligent cameras, smart doorbells, and vacuums. Furthermore, in public and private sectors, to become a well-known object of everyday life. Nowadays, there are 6 billion devices on the Internet. With this spreading, IoT's cybersecurity becomes a critical aspect protecting it and its sensitive data from different attacks. This paper will present a comprehensive view of the IoT application layer security concerns and attacks, focusing on one of the critical attacks conducted on this layer, vulnerabilities in the Application programming interfaces (APIs) in IoT devices, APIs in IoT are the communication points between IoT devices and the internet. Moreover, this paper will cover how APIs communicate through IoT devices, and the attacks that target the APIs.