On 01 October, I was invited to deliver an online lecture about the topic of securing the Internet of Things (IoT) to Lund University Bachelors students. I have been researching security and privacy on a full-time time basis for the past five years and working on information security for well over a decade.

My lecture consisted of a two-hour presentation, where I focused on some key attacks targeting consumer and industrial IoT applications. Denial-of-service attacks, routing attacks, and service attacks of which we have been talking about for many years have become even more serious. For instance, think about Mirai, the botnet which broke out in 2016, and other malware targeting unsecured IoT devices such as webcams. This is partly happening due to the interconnectedness of the devices, but especially due to a lack of inbuilt security measures. In this regard, Vint Cerf, one of the computer scientists hailed as a founding father of the Internet, said in an ACM panel in 2017: