Its like calling off the technology even before its deployment. On Monday, August 10, 2015 at 11:15:55 AM UTC+5:30, shravan wrote: > > A group of researchers launched an aerial security scanning project > relying on ZigBee-sniffing drone to map online Internet of Things. > > Drones are powerful machines and security experts are imagining day by day > new usage scenarios. A group of security experts (Joshua Wright, Ryan > Speers, Ricky Melgares, and Travis Goodspeed) are exploiting a > ZigBee-sniffing drone to map online Internet of Things devices to build a > searchable archive. > > A team of researchers at the Praetorian firm has started a project to > analyze the security of internet-of-things devices using the > popular ZigBeecommunications protocol. > > The goal of the researchers is to build a SHODAN-like search engine > specialized for the internet of things devices, highlighting their security > vulnerabilities. > > “At its core, this project is driven by exploration,” explained the > researchers. “Where are these things? Who made them? What do they do? Are > they secure? These are some of the questions we hope to answer.” “The first > step of our exploration involves locating and fingerprinting ZigBee-enabled > smart devices and networks. We’re starting local and expanding from here. > It’s a big world to explore and billions of things to discover.” > > The experts published on the official page of the project a real-time > tracker that allows to see where is flying the drone. > > The experts have already uncovered more than 1600 unique internet of > things devices, 453 of them are made by Sony, and 110 by Philips. > > The experts are analyzing for each device security settings, manufacturer > ID, channels, and other attributes. The researchers want to extend the use > of drones to other cities and include data collected in their archive. For > this reason they are planning to release the open-source blueprints for the > project to allow another team of researchers to contribute to the > initiative. > > The drone is able to log the locations of Internet of Things devices > within a 100-meter range. > > “ZigBee is buzzing all around us, everywhere, everyday. In order to listen > in on conversations taking place between machines, we’ve developed an > autonomous, hand-held device that speaks the ZigBee language. It helps us > humans better understand the conversations going on around us—a translator > of sorts. The device is equipped with several ZigBee radios for > communicating with the devices around it and an integrated GPS to > triangulate the location of each device. It’s self-powered, weighs about > 250g, and has software that makes it fully autonomous. While in operation, > the device captures and logs the locations of all smart devices it finds > within range (approximately 30-100 meters). Today, it can be held in your > hand while taking a stroll around town or it can sit in your car while > driving. Soon it will take flight on a drone.” the researchers explain on > the web site of the project. > > The researcher used a six rotor drone equipped with ZigBee radios for > communicating with Internet of Things devices and a GPS device to track > their position. > > “Very soon, we’ll be releasing a full how-to build guide for our device, > along with a release of the code the drives it, so other passionate > engineers and hackers interested in ZigBee can start listening in to the > machines around them,” the team says. > > Stay tuned > NforceIT >
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