Nowadays public environments (e.g. airports, offices, and parks) and private or protected environments (e.g. SCADA systems) populate with a high number of heterogeneous devices like smart-phones, sensors, laptops, or tablets for example. Majority of devices have embedded more than one communication capability with allows people to interact with the environment. Due to the large amount of different interaction within those pervasive environments the complexity increases so does the insecurity of such systems. The easiness to create new malware samples and remotely exploit a network service or infect a device through another one is only comparable to the damage that can be caused. In this work we present a survey on how these environments are vulnerable to attacks and how we can detect and prevent such attacks using proper tools and methodologies.

Different factors are not taken into account when securing ubiquitous devices:

Due to the above reasons pervasive environments are vulnerable to multiple vector attacks: