Rogue Robots

Presented at SXSW 2018, “Rogue Robots and the Potential for Cyberattack” examines the challenges facing today’s industrial robots.

Here are the slides for the talk.

Research

Here are the research papers mentioned in the talk;

• The Crisis of Connected Cars: When Vulnerabilities Affect the CAN Standard
• Trend Micro smart factory research;
  1. Smart Factory Security Part 1: Looking at the impact of poor cybersecurity in factories
  2. Smart Factory Security Part 2: What Management Should Know in Securing a Factory
  3. Smart Factory Security Part 3: Ransomware countermeasures for factory operations
  4. Smart Factory Security Part 4: Lessons Learned from the WannaCry Attack
• Rogue Robots, Testing the Limits of an Industrial Robot’s Security

References

During the talk, I made a number of references. Some were just to keep things light but I think they’re all interesting (which is why I said them). Here are those references;

• The BB-8 Sphero toy
• The new “The Jetsons” comic series
• UBTech Alpha 1 Pro entertainment & educational robot
• iRobot Roomba robot vacuums
• Skydio R1 self-flying camera
• Amazon Prime Air drone delivery
• Amazon Robotics, formerly Kiva Systems, warehouse robots
• 2018-Mar-06 article from The Verge, “Uber’s self-driving trucks are now delivering freight in Arizona”
• 2014-Jun-04 article from Popular Science, “Robot Truck Convoy Tested In Nevada”
• the CAN bus (ISO-11898) standard for in-vehicle networks
• IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index
• 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report from Verizon
• U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reporting on U.S. GDP
• ICS-CERT Annual Vulnerability Coordination Report