SECURITY ISSUES IN INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) RELATED TO PASSIVE RFID TAGS

According to the latest research of emerging technologies in the next few decades, an era of fully integrated Future Internet is coming. The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm will be the one of the leading technologies in the transformation from nowadays Internet into the Future Internet. Many European projects related to IoT were announced this year, such as Horizon 2020. In definition, IoT includes smart objects, machine to machine (M2M) communication, radio frequency (RF) technologies, and a central hub of information. One of the major requirements for IoT is that objects must have a unique identity, which would make them practically addressable when exchanging information. To achieve that, RFID tags can be used. There are three types of RFID tags: active, semi-passive, and passive. Considering their basic characteristics, passive tags are the most suitable to use in IoT. Passive RFID tags can have certain security issues. In this paper, using the STRIDE threat model, potential issues of passive RFID tags are described and discussed, with the currently known guidelines for their elimination