Zero-Power Defense Done Right: Shielding IMDs from Battery-Depletion Attacks

The wireless capabilities of modern Implantable Medical Devices (IMDs) make them vulnerable to security attacks. One prominent attack, which has disastrous consequences for the patient’s wellbeing, is the battery Denial-of-Service attack whereby the IMD is occupied with continuous authentication requests from an adversary with the aim of...

Securing Implantable Medical Devices Using Ultrasound Waves

Modern Implantable Medical Devices (IMDs) are vulnerable to security attacks because of their wireless connectivity to the outside world. One of the main security challenges is establishing trust between the IMD and an external reader/programmer in order to facilitate secure communication. Numerous device-pairing schemes have been proposed to...

SETCAP: Service-Based Energy-Efficient Temporal Credential Authentication Protocol for Internet of Drones

Internet of Drones (IoD) is a framework to set up drones networks that may serve multiple purposes, e.g., data collection. New IoD applications (such as drone assisted internet of vehicles) envision the simultaneous collection of multiple data types. Although authentication may prevent unauthorized users to access the collected data, existing...