WoT Communication Protocol Security and Privacy Issues

Abstract

In this paper, we have proposed a novel approach for the prevention of the Internet of Things (IoT) from fake devices and highlighted privacy issues by using third party Application Program Interface (RestAPI) in Web of Things (WoT). For the ease of life, the usage of IoT devices, sensors, and Radio-Frequency Identifications (RFIDs) increased rapidly. Such as in transport for monitoring vehicles, taxi services, healthcare for patient's health condition monitoring, smart cars, smart grids, and smart homes, etc. Due to this for financial gain attackers are targeting these networks or protocol and adversaries are trying to damage the reputation of the organization or to steal intellectual property. From the last two decades or more, the injection vulnerabilities are more threatening security risks for the web application still exists. The new security challenges occur for the security professional or security researchers in the form of IoT or WoT (Web of Things) communication protocols implementation. These protocol Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT), Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP), WebSockets, and RestAPI have a different type of security issues. Respectively insertion of fake devices, authentication is not implemented in WebSocket connections, and user's privacy can be leaked with the use of RestAPI without its validation. We have developed a program in Personal Home Pages (PHP) for the detection of new devices in the IoT network. With this, the user's privacy and data will be protected along with some critical security issues of WoT underlying protocols.