Blockchain for Industry 4.0

Chapter 4 Safeguarding blockchains from adversarial tactics

Alex Neelankavil Devassy and Dhanith Krishna

Ernst & Young GDS

DOI: 10.1201/9781003282914-4

CONTENTS

1. 4.1 Introduction: Background and Driving Forces
2. 4.2 Necessity of Safeguarding Dapps from Adversary Tactics
3. 4.3 Blockchain Reference Model
4. 4.4 Network Layer Attacks in Blockchain
   1. 4.4.1 Node configuration flaws
   2. 4.4.2 Attacks on consensus
   3. 4.4.3 Identity and access management issues
   4. 4.4.4 Best practices
5. 4.5 Smart Contract Attacks in Blockchain
   1. 4.5.1 Smart contract logic flaws
   2. 4.5.2 Insecure arithmetic
   3. 4.5.3 Attacks on deterministic nature of smart contracts
   4. 4.5.4 Best practices
6. 4.6 Access Layer Attacks in Blockchain
   1. 4.6.1 Exploitation via Web3 attacks
   2. 4.6.2 Exploitation via Web2 ...