Investigating current state Security of OpenFlow Networks: Focusing on the control-data plane communications

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is the emerging paradigm that breaks vertical integration in networks, separating the network’s control logic from the underlying network devices such as routers and switches.<br/>The decoupling of this data plane and control plane, there is need for a new communication channel which is used for the communication...

Understanding Security Flaws of IoT Protocols through Honeypot Technologies: ThingPot-an IoT platform honeypot

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are gaining popularity in daily life as well as in specific fields such as home automation, medical facilities, among others. Many applications can be developed in each domain and new ones appear everyday, requiring a flexible, simple and secure interconnection among "things" [38]. Moreover, IoT platforms could...

LoRaWAN: Vulnerability Analysis and Practical Expoitation

Internet of Things (IoT) applications nowadays have a wide impact on people’s daily life while the size of IoT has been increasing rapidly. Millions of devices huge amount of data and different kinds of new protocols can bring many security issues.<br/>LoRaWAN is a MAC layer protocol for long-range low-power communication dedicated to the IoT....