EWSN 2024 Best Demo Award
Demo: From Eavesdropping to Exploitation:
Exposing Vulnerabilities in BLE-Enabled Wearable Medical Devices
Authors: Mohammad Alhussan, Francesca Boem, Sara Ghoreishizadeh, Anna Maria Mandalari
Conference: 21st International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN 2024)
Date: December 10–13, 2024
Location: St. Regis Abu Dhabi, UAE
Overview
This award-winning live demonstration showcased the potential vulnerabilities in some wearable medical devices that use Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) for communication, focusing on the risks of Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks, sabotaging and data manipulation attacks. We showed how these attacks can compromise not only the confidentiality and integrity of potentially sensitive medical data transmitted by wearable medical devices, but also patients' privacy and safety as well as sensors' reliability.
Award
🏆 Best Demo Award received at EWSN 2024.
Recognized by UCL and the Kuwait Cultural Office for outstanding impact in wearable medical devices cybersecurity.
Resources
- EWSN 2024 Demo Proceedings (Full paper PDF)
- UCL News – Best Demo Award
- Kuwait Cultural Office Announcement
Images
Best Demo Award at EWSN 2024.
Receiving the Best Demo Award at the ceremony.