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Hacking industrial robots in today’s smart factories

Common sense really that any new technologies will act as a new target and although robotics are not totally new they becoming a lot more common now.

 

Zeljka Zorz –

 

It has been estimated that by 2018, approximately 1.3 million industrial robot units – mechanical multi-axis “arms” used for automating various operations – will be employed in factories across the world.

 

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And with the increased complexity and interconnection of industrial and robotic systems, it is high time to make sure that these devices can’t be compromised to adversely impact the quality or availability of the production chain, or endanger the humans that work beside them.

 

A group of researchers from Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI) and the Trend Micro Forward-Looking Threat Research (FTR) Team have, therefore, taken upon themselves the task to discover the width of the attack surface these complex cyberphysical systems offer to attackers.

 

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