Cyber Security: Botnet attacks

Internet of Things (IoT), equipped with massively interconnected Cyber-Physical Devices (CPDs) is opening a new era of ubiquitous computing and smart communications. The IoT is expected to create many new business opportunities in smart home care, industry automation, and critical infrastructure protection. To enable the prevalent IoT services, many of the small computing devices, which were considered unworthy and unintelligent, have been reformatted and given the cyber-communication capacity. This has enabled many smart applications, but on the other hand, it has created serious security problems as these devices are not properly configured for security. These CPDs are inherently lack the computing resources (CPU processing or computer memory); therefore, they are open to many serious attacks including hijacking attacks which will dupe them to be part of BOTNET attacks