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One of the reasons that the research of intrusion detection in wireless sensor networks has not advanced significantly is that the concept of "intrusion" is not clear in these networks. In this paper we investigate in depth one of the most severe attacks against sensor networks, namely the sinkhole attack, and we emphasize on strategies that an attacker can follow to successfully launch...