Smart grid cyber-physical situational awareness of complex operational technology attacks: A review

MN Nafees, N Saxena, A Cardenas, S Grijalva… - ACM Computing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The smart grid (SG), regarded as the complex cyber-physical ecosystem of infrastructures,
orchestrates advanced communication, computation, and control technologies to interact …

[HTML][HTML] A Survey on Programmable Logic Controller Vulnerabilities, Attacks, Detections, and Forensics

Z Wang, Y Zhang, Y Chen, H Liu, B Wang, C Wang - Processes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), as specialized task-oriented embedded field
devices, play a vital role in current industrial control systems (ICSs), which are composed of …

Open-sourcing highly capable foundation models: An evaluation of risks, benefits, and alternative methods for pursuing open-source objectives

E Seger, N Dreksler, R Moulange, E Dardaman… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recent decisions by leading AI labs to either open-source their models or to restrict access
to their models has sparked debate about whether, and how, increasingly capable AI …

Security of programmable logic controllers and related systems: today and tomorrow

W Alsabbagh, P Langendörfer - IEEE Open Journal of the …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are indispensable in critical infrastructures and
industrial control systems. The increasing demand for enhanced cost-effectiveness and …

Gadgets of gadgets in industrial control systems: Return oriented programming attacks on PLCs

A Ayub, N Zubair, H Yoo, W Jo… - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In industrial control systems (ICS), programmable logic controllers (PLCs) directly control
and monitor physical processes in real-time such as nuclear plants, and power grid stations …

Deep H2O: Cyber attacks detection in water distribution systems using deep learning

MNK Sikder, MBT Nguyen, ED Elliott… - Journal of Water Process …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Water Distribution Systems (WDSs) leverage the recent technological
advancements in sensor technologies and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) for better …

On the use of reinforcement learning for attacking and defending load frequency control

AS Mohamed, D Kundur - IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The electric grid is an attractive target for cyberattackers given its critical nature in society.
With the increasing sophistication of cyberattacks, effective grid defense will benefit from …

{ICSPatch}: Automated Vulnerability Localization and {Non-Intrusive} Hotpatching in Industrial Control Systems using Data Dependence Graphs

PHN Rajput, C Doumanidis, M Maniatakos - 32nd USENIX Security …, 2023 - usenix.org
The paradigm shift of enabling extensive intercommunication between the Operational
Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) devices allows vulnerabilities typical to the …

Detection-performance tradeoff for watermarking in industrial control systems

H Zhu, M Liu, C Fang, R Deng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The watermarking method, which adds unique watermarks to data, has been widely used for
integrity attack detection in industrial control systems (ICSs). Existing literature generally …

Get your cyber-physical tests done! data-driven vulnerability assessment of robotic aerial vehicles

A Ding, M Chan, A Hass… - 2023 53rd Annual …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid growth of robotic aerial vehicles (RAVs) has attracted extensive interest in
numerous public and civilian applications, from flying drones to quadrotors. Security of RAV …