Understanding the Attackers and Victims in IoT-based DDoS attacks: A mixed methodology approach to understanding cybercrime

To protect critical services in today's society it is necessary to mitigate and prevent risks threatening the reliability of the internet. Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices are the number one attack target on the internet. The situation will become worse as there will be an expected 40 billion IoT devices in 2025. IoT bot activity represented 78%...

Performance Evaluation of a LoRaWAN Towards Development of an Optimised ADR (Adaptive Data Rate) Model

The accelerating growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to the development of many different communication protocols to enable the most optimal environment for the nature of IoT. Requiring long range and low power communication abilities, has resulted in LPWANs (low-power WANs); one such LPWAN is LoRaWAN (Long Range WAN) which is studied...