A Survey of Privacy Leakage and Security Vulnerabilities in the Internet of Things

In this world, where everything around use is linked with technology, be it smart homes, smart cities, smart cars, etc. Internet of Things (IoT) or Internet Connected Things (ICT) are connected todays everywhere, with everywhere which is used to build a smart environment (with physical world). In fact, these internet linked gadgets have made our lives extremely easy, secure, and quick. But, using such devices in our daily life, people are very much concern about “their personal information”. So a question raised here: “Is it (personal information) safe with these (such) devices”? When these devices are connected together, they build an ecosystem together for human being/for various applications. A lot of data is being captured and transformed into valuable forms, which is used in future for increase productivity by forms/ organisation (in many application areas), ranging from automated home appliances, smart grids and high-resolution assets, to product management. This captured and collected data creates several issues, so it requires new/ useful strategies of enhancing the present status of IoT by incorporating (or overcoming) security and privacy into its current design, structure and implementation. Hence, this article explains such issues (in IoT) like privacy breaches, security vulnerability etc., in clear manner.