User:Mkinzler

Personal Info

• Computer Engineering Student
• Class of 2018
• Working with Dr. Debbie Perouli

Logs

Week 1

• Orientation
• Filled out logistical paperwork
• Met with mentor and figured out research project plan for summer
• Researched DDoS attacks that used the Internet of Things and other articles concerning IoT and Security
• Started finding applications that will work as a cloud computing platform for our research project such as Carriot
• Attended Library Tour
• Attended Dr. Brylow and Dr. Factor's research speech on how to be a good researcher
• Looked through the specs of the JD Humanoid robot since it might be included in our system.
• Learned more about BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) Hijacking and SSRF (Server-Side Request Forgery)
• Began setup of devices required for project such as an android tablet and the Google Home.
• Researched the OIS model and different protocol layers
• Researched Internet of Things architectures and protocols

Week 2

• Researched More Internet of Things architectures
• Learned Latex and started to add online journals to bibliography
• RCR Training
• Setup Raspberry Pi Zero board with Conductivity sensor
• Troubleshooting Pi serial port
• Successfully connected and started to collect the conductivity sensor data to the raspberry pi through the UART serial port
• Started working on backing up data to the cloud

Week 3

• Finished the online RCR training
• Wrote the code for the raspberry pi in C that backups data to the cloud from Ubidots
• Started to watch videos on the setup of the EZ robot

Week 4

• Setup the robot
• Familiarized myself with programming the robot
• Made simple program for robot
• Researched possibility of vulnerability with robot's servos

Week 5

• Set up Microsoft Cognitive Vision
• Connected Microsoft Cognitive Vision to robot and tested
• Worked on presentation
• Wrote the code that allows the robot to retrieve info from Ubidots
• Started writing the main code for the robot

Week 6

• Plugins can be viewed here
• Began exploring cyber-security vulnerabilities of built system
• Started looking into using tcp-proxy to gather credentials

Week 7

• Further explored using tcp-proxy
• Brainstorming unique ways to infiltrate a social robot
• Exploring options with eavesdropping with camera audio/video
• Started compiling notes onto document for report
• Set up Amazon Echo Show
• Investigating reason behind dedicated TCP server for camera on robot
• Reviewing licensing and terms of use for EZ-Robots

Week 8

• Further investigated reason behind dedicated TCP server for camera on robot
• Further reviewed licensing and terms of use for EZ-Robots
• Seeing if if creating a firewall for Telnet can be run on the robot
• Started poster
• Started research paper

Week 9

• Finish Poster
• Send bytes to robot to get more info on communication protocol used
• Start figuring out how to filter specific packets on the robot