The advancement of Internet-of-Things (IoT) edge devices with various types
of sensors enables us to harness diverse information with Mobile Crowd-Sensing
applications (MCS). This highly dynamic setting entails the collection of
ubiquitous data traces, originating from sensors carried by people, introducing
new information security challenges; one of them being the preservation of data
trustworthiness. What is needed in these settings is the timely analysis of
these large datasets to produce accurate insights on the correctness of user
reports. Existing data mining and other artificial intelligence methods are the
most popular to gain hidden insights from IoT data, albeit with many
challenges. In this paper, we first model the cyber trustworthiness of MCS
reports in the presence of intelligent and colluding adversaries. We then
rigorously assess, using real IoT datasets, the effectiveness and accuracy of
well-known data mining algorithms when employed towards IoT security and
privacy. By taking into account the spatio-temporal changes of the underlying
phenomena, we demonstrate how concept drifts can masquerade the existence of
attackers and their impact on the accuracy of both the clustering and
classification processes. Our initial set of results clearly show that these
unsupervised learning algorithms are prone to adversarial infection, thus,
magnifying the need for further research in the field by leveraging a mix of
advanced machine learning models and mathematical optimization techniques.