Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Title

Applied Sciences (Switzerland)

Volume

12

Issue

4

Publisher

MDPI

School

School of Science

RAS ID

43326

Comments

Ahmed, M., Cox, D., Simpson, B., & Aloufi, A. (2022). ECU-IoFT: A Dataset for Analysing Cyber-Attacks on Internet of Flying Things. Applied Sciences, 12(4), 1990. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12041990

Abstract

There has been a significant increase in the adoption of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics project-based learning. However, the risks that education providers place their student and staff under is often unknown or undocumented. Low-end consumer drones used within the education sector are vulnerable to state-of-the-art cyberattacks. Therefore, datasets are required to conduct further research to establish cyber defenses for UAVs used within the education sector. This paper showcases the development of the ECU-IoFT dataset, documenting three known cyber-attacks targeting Wi-Fi communications and the lack of security in an affordable off-the-shelf drone. At present, there are no publicly available labeled datasets that reflect cyberattacks on the Internet of Flying Things (IoFT). The majority of the publicly available network traffic datasets are emulated and do not reflect the scenarios/attacks from a real test setup. This dataset will be beneficial for both cybersecurity researchers to develop defense strategies and UAV manufacturers to design more secure products. In the future, endeavors will be taken to incorporate newer attacks and create datasets appropriate for big data analysis.

DOI

10.3390/app12041990

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