Hacking Factory Robot Arms for Sabotage, Fun & Profit

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Black Hat talk will discuss how hackers could take over robotic arms, create micro-defects in products, and open up a new world of subtle blackmail.

Security researchers have been accumulating a trove of breakthrough discoveries on Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) vulnerabilities and releasing them at the Black Hat Briefings over the last few years – which has certainly helped raise awareness of dangerous flaws in critical infrastructure like power grids and gas pipeline control systems. But there’s a lot more to IIoT security than hardening the industrial world against power disruptions.

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