RFID Exploitation and Countermeasures
It addresses security risks for end-users in RFID and IoT applications, but is incremental as it reviews existing attacks and defenses.
This paper tackles the security vulnerabilities in RFID systems, which are widely used in IoT, by analyzing 23 known attacks and proposing countermeasures like Active Jamming and Authentication.
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems are among the most widespread computing technologies with technical potential and profitable opportunities in numerous applications worldwide. Further, RFID is the core technology behind the Internet of Things (IoT), which can accomplish the real-time transmission of information between objects without manual operation. However, RFID security has been taken for granted for several years, causing multiple vulnerabilities that can even damage human functionalities. The latest ISO/IEC 18000-63:2015 standard concerning RFID dates to 2015, and much freedom has been given to manufacturers responsible for making their devices secure. The lack of a substantial standard for devices that implement RFID technology creates many vulnerabilities that expose end-users to elevated risk. Hence, this paper gives the reader a clear overview of the technology, and it analyzes 23 well-known RFID attacks such as Reverse Engineering, Buffer Overflow, Eavesdropping, and Malware. Moreover, given the exceptional capabilities and utilities of RFID devices, this paper has focused on security measures and defenses for protecting them, such as Active Jamming, Shielding tag, and Authentication.