VB2016 paper: Mobile applications: a backdoor into the Internet of Things?

The meteoric rise of the Mirai botnet in recent months has led to the Internet of Things (IoT) becoming a major and actual security concern. To assess the effective security status of the so-called smart devices that make up the IoT, security researchers need to reverse engineer them – something that often isn’t trivial thanks to poor documentation and the use of proprietary operating systems.

In the paper ‘Mobile Applications: a Backdoor into Internet of Things?’, which was presented at VB2016,

Fortinet

researcher Axelle Aprville discussed a novel way of analysing smart devices: by looking at the accompanying mobile app.

Today, we publish Axelle’s paper (

here

in HTML format and

here

in PDF format). We have also uploaded the video of her presentation, which included a number of live demos, to our

YouTube

channel.