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A cyber warfare perspective on risks related to health IoT devices and contact tracing
The wide use of IT resources to assess and manage the recent COVID-19 pandemic allows to increase the effectiveness of the countermeasures and the pervasiveness of monitoring and prevention. Unfortunately, the literature reports that IoT devices, a widely adopted technology for these applications, a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8769794/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35075332 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00521-021-06720-1 |
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author | Bobbio, Andrea Campanile, Lelio Gribaudo, Marco Iacono, Mauro Marulli, Fiammetta Mastroianni, Michele |
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description | The wide use of IT resources to assess and manage the recent COVID-19 pandemic allows to increase the effectiveness of the countermeasures and the pervasiveness of monitoring and prevention. Unfortunately, the literature reports that IoT devices, a widely adopted technology for these applications, are characterized by security vulnerabilities that are difficult to manage at the state level. Comparable problems exist for related technologies that leverage smartphones, such as contact tracing applications, and non-medical health monitoring devices. In analogous situations, these vulnerabilities may be exploited in the cyber domain to overload the crisis management systems with false alarms and to interfere with the interests of target countries, with consequences on their economy and their political equilibria. In this paper we analyze the potential threat to an example subsystem to show how these influences may impact it and evaluate a possible consequence. |
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spelling | pubmed-87697942022-01-20 A cyber warfare perspective on risks related to health IoT devices and contact tracing Bobbio, Andrea Campanile, Lelio Gribaudo, Marco Iacono, Mauro Marulli, Fiammetta Mastroianni, Michele Neural Comput Appl S.I.: IoT-based Health Monitoring System The wide use of IT resources to assess and manage the recent COVID-19 pandemic allows to increase the effectiveness of the countermeasures and the pervasiveness of monitoring and prevention. Unfortunately, the literature reports that IoT devices, a widely adopted technology for these applications, are characterized by security vulnerabilities that are difficult to manage at the state level. Comparable problems exist for related technologies that leverage smartphones, such as contact tracing applications, and non-medical health monitoring devices. In analogous situations, these vulnerabilities may be exploited in the cyber domain to overload the crisis management systems with false alarms and to interfere with the interests of target countries, with consequences on their economy and their political equilibria. In this paper we analyze the potential threat to an example subsystem to show how these influences may impact it and evaluate a possible consequence. Springer London 2022-01-20 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC8769794/ /pubmed/35075332 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00521-021-06720-1 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | S.I.: IoT-based Health Monitoring System Bobbio, Andrea Campanile, Lelio Gribaudo, Marco Iacono, Mauro Marulli, Fiammetta Mastroianni, Michele A cyber warfare perspective on risks related to health IoT devices and contact tracing |
title | A cyber warfare perspective on risks related to health IoT devices and contact tracing |
title_full | A cyber warfare perspective on risks related to health IoT devices and contact tracing |
title_fullStr | A cyber warfare perspective on risks related to health IoT devices and contact tracing |
title_full_unstemmed | A cyber warfare perspective on risks related to health IoT devices and contact tracing |
title_short | A cyber warfare perspective on risks related to health IoT devices and contact tracing |
title_sort | cyber warfare perspective on risks related to health iot devices and contact tracing |
topic | S.I.: IoT-based Health Monitoring System |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8769794/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35075332 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00521-021-06720-1 |
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