Team: 3
School: Eldorado High
Area of Science: Cyber Security (Computer Science)
Proposal: Keeping Personal Assistant Devices Secure at Home: The Google Home Mini (GHM)
Team Number: 3
Team Members: Nancy Avila navilad.735@gmail.com
Candis Canaday candisc101@gmail.com
Gwenevere Caouette gweneverecaouette@gmail.com
Priscila Flores precelaflores10@gmail.com
Kyreen White hellu.kittycat2004@gmail.com
Teacher(s): Ms. Lunsford lunsford@aps.edu
Mrs. Glennon kglennon25@gmail.com
Sponsor: Mrs. Glennon kglennon25@gmail.com
Areas of Science: Cyber Security (Computer Science)
Definition of the Problem:
As of 2019, more than 26.66 Billion IoT devices have been active (Letić). Along with the development of this technology has come the threat of hackers seeking personal information from unsuspecting users of these devices. Since consumers do not have information about what is going on with their device’s privacy and security, there is a large amount of the unknown. One may have to give up some personal information and security to use the device’s luxuries. What can be done to maximize the security of devices such as the Google Home Mini (GHM)?
Purpose of the Project:
People are using the internet more as technology evolves. We want to protect people from hackers because it happens often. Due to the fact that IoT devices are new in the past decade, they are not as secure. Hackers could easily hack into an IoT device through voice fraudery or hacking through devices connected to the IoT (Lourenco). We should protect them as our computers, phones, and other electronic devices are protected. A survey of 950 companies found that forty-eight percent stated that they do not have a system or program in place to detect if their devices are hacked (Schwab). We are hoping to make it easier for consumers to freely do what they want without having the scare of being hacked.
Plan of Action:
We plan to start talking to experts that study IoT devices. Last year, we wanted to read more books on IoT devices to further our knowledge on them, but we never got to it. We will focus on improving the code, working on tests and trials for the GHM security, learning how to use KaliLinux and VirtualBox, and increasing our research and understanding of the GHM. We will use our two Google Home Minis to do tests and trials with voice recognition and privacy and test the differences and similarities between the old version of the GHM and the new version of the GHM that has been provided to us through our teammates. With KaliLinux and VirtualBox, we can hack into the GHM without fear of messing up the device. In the future, we hope to find a way to show the scientists its security strength through these softwares.
Code:
This year, for our code, we plan to try different coding languages that have been introduced to us. This includes Virtual Box and KaliLinux for different ways we can show how to hack into the GHM and show what is happening with the code. We will continue to demonstrate hacking methods used on the Google Home Mini and what to do to protect them using NetLogo. At the moment, we have a house set up in the program, and we are looking for a mentor to help us get results and understand which direction we want to go with this project in a computational way.
Team Members:
Gwenevere Caouette
Kyreen White
Nancy Avila Do
Candis Canaday
Sponsoring Teacher: Sharee Lunsford