Assessment of Fitness Tracker Security: A Case of Study

Proceedings

Alonso, Lucía¹  López, Andrés Marín²  Patricia Arias Cabarcos,Daniel Díaz SÃnchez³  Mendoza, Florina Almenares⁴ 

[1] Alumni University Carlos III of Madrid, 28911 Madrid, Spain;Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.;Currently supported by an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship at Universität Mannheim.;University Carlos III de Madrid, Avda, de la Universidad 30, 28911 Leganés, Spain

关键词: fitness tracker;    wearable devices;    security vulnerabilities;   

DOI  :  10.3390/proceedings2191235

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

The wearable industry has experienced a notable growth over the last decade, especially in fitness or e-health trackers. These trackers bring new functionalities that require collecting a great amount of sensitive information about the user. This fact has made fitness trackers the target of deliberate attacks, e.g., eavesdropping, unauthorized account access, fake firmware update, and so on. For this reason, this paper describes a vulnerability study on one of the most popular fitness trackers in 2017, together with the mobile application associated to the tracker. The study results show what vulnerabilities of the communications among agents (i.e., wearable device, mobile application and server) could put at risk users sensitive information and privacy.

【 授权许可】

CC BY