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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2019
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yuqiong Sun, San Jose, CA (US);
Xueqiang Wang, Bloomington, IN (US);
Susanta K. Nanda, San Jose, CA (US);
Petros Efstathopoulos, Los Angeles, CA (US);
NORTONLIFELOCK INC., Tempe, AZ (US);
Abstract
Determining security vulnerabilities of smart home devices. A method may include obtaining data regarding a first application associated with a first IoT device associated with a known security vulnerability; analyzing the data regarding the first application to analyze expected communications with the first IoT device; identifying a second application available for download associated with a second IoT device; analyzing expected communications between the second application and the second IoT device; comparing the expected communications between the first application and first IoT device and between the second application and second IoT device to determine a similarity level between the first and second IoT devices; determining the second IoT device shares the same known security vulnerability as the first IoT device based on determining the similarity level; and implementing a security action on the second IoT device based on determining that the second IoT device shares the same known security vulnerability.