Battery Exhaustion Attacks

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Battery Exhaustion Attacks Peer-to-Peer Attacks

• douglas b. burda

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Battery Exhaustion Attacks
Taxonomy
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Battery Exhaustion Attacks

• Description an attack that drains the power of a
  devices battery reducing the expected life of
  the device, and, thereby, the full utility of the
  device.
• Classification 3 major categories of attacks-
• Malignant attack- virus used to make a device
  excessively consume its own power
• May be detected using known virus detection
  techniques.
• Benign attack- unmodified program is given data
  such that it consumes excessive power and
• More difficult to detect due to implementation in
  unmodified code.
• Service request attack- device is forced to make
  repeated requests to network provider.
• Main detection issues differentiate attacks from
  false positives, reduce consumption of detection
  mechanisms.
• Proposed detection mechanism Power-Secure
  Architecture.

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Peer-to-Peer Attacks

• Description an attack with the purpose of either
  compromising data within a Peer-to-Peer system,
  or attacking the Peer-to-Peer application itself.
• Classification 2 major categories of attacks-
• Data plane attack- an attack targeting the data
  used within a Peer-to-Peer application.
• File poisoning/pollution attack.
• Control plane attack- an attack targeting the
  functionality of a Peer-to-Peer application.
• Rationale attack, Sybil attack, Eclipse attack,
• Main Detection Issues placement of nodes within
  the system, aspects of P2P upheld.
• Proposed Detection Mechanism randomly dispersed
  identities, trusted signing authorities,
  cryptography.

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Peer-to-Peer Attacks
Data plane attack Diagram