TY - GEN
T1 - Distributed Denial of Service Cyberbioattack Affecting Bacteria-based Biosensing Systems
AU - Bernal, Sergio Lopez
AU - Martins, Daniel Perez
AU - Celdran, Alberto Huertas
N1 - Funding Information:
This work has been funded by the Government of Ire-land, through the IRC post-doc fellowship (grant code GOIPD/2018/466).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/6
Y1 - 2020/6
N2 - Bacteria are microorganisms found in the human body, and almost in everywhere, that recently they have been investigated as human gut's health indicator. After colonizing a surface, bacterial populations form biofilms, which is their natural protection mechanism against physical attacks, harmful chemical compounds and environmental changes. Recent studies have shown that bacteria can be engineered to act as biosensors and bioactuators, externally controlled by electric signals. Despite the benefits provided by biosensors in terms of metabolic diseases diagnosis and treatment, they also open the door to novel cyberbioattacks due to the impossibility of implementing security mechanisms in resource-constrained engineered bacteria. In this context, we have reproduced a distributed denial of service (DDoS) cyberbioattack performed by engineered bacteria that diffuse jamming signals affecting the production of the biofilm structure. A pool of experiments has shown that higher amplitudes and periods in the signal controlling the engineered bacteria have a greater impact on the biofilm disruption.
AB - Bacteria are microorganisms found in the human body, and almost in everywhere, that recently they have been investigated as human gut's health indicator. After colonizing a surface, bacterial populations form biofilms, which is their natural protection mechanism against physical attacks, harmful chemical compounds and environmental changes. Recent studies have shown that bacteria can be engineered to act as biosensors and bioactuators, externally controlled by electric signals. Despite the benefits provided by biosensors in terms of metabolic diseases diagnosis and treatment, they also open the door to novel cyberbioattacks due to the impossibility of implementing security mechanisms in resource-constrained engineered bacteria. In this context, we have reproduced a distributed denial of service (DDoS) cyberbioattack performed by engineered bacteria that diffuse jamming signals affecting the production of the biofilm structure. A pool of experiments has shown that higher amplitudes and periods in the signal controlling the engineered bacteria have a greater impact on the biofilm disruption.
KW - bacteria
KW - biofilm
KW - cyberbiosecurity
KW - cybersecurity
KW - DDoS
KW - engineered cells
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U2 - 10.1109/ECTI-CON49241.2020.9158303
DO - 10.1109/ECTI-CON49241.2020.9158303
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - 17th International Conference on Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology, ECTI-CON 2020
SP - 279
EP - 282
BT - 17th International Conference on Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology, ECTI-CON 2020
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 17th International Conference on Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology, ECTI-CON 2020
Y2 - 24 June 2020 through 27 June 2020
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