Wearable Technology Devices Security and Privacy Vulnerability Analysis

Abstract

Wearable Technology also called wearable gadget , is acategory of technology devices with low processing capabilities that can be worn by a user with the aim to provide information and ease of access to the master devices its pairing with . Such examples are Google Glass and Smart watch . The impact of wearable technology becomes significant when people start their invention in wearable computing , where their mobile devices become one of the computation sources . However , wearable technology is not mature yet in term of device security and privacy acceptance of the public . There exists some security weakness that prompts such wearable devices vulnerable to attack . One of the critical attack on wearable technology is authentication issue . The low processing due to less computing power of wearable device causethe developer ' s inability to equip some complicated security mechanisms and algorithm on the device . In this study , an overview of security and privacy vulnerabilities on wearable devices is presented .