The deep neural network (DNN) model for computer vision tasks (object detection and classification) is widely used in autonomous vehicles, such as driverless cars and unmanned aerial vehicles. However, DNN models are shown to be vulnerable to adversarial ...

Smart meters provide fine-grained power usage profiles of consumers to various utility providers, thus facilitating multiple grid functionalities such as load monitoring, real-time pricing, demand response, etc. However, information leakage from such ...

Cybersecurity attacks on embedded devices for industrial control systems and cyber-physical systems may cause catastrophic physical damage as well as economic loss. This could be achieved by infecting device binaries with malware that modifies the ...

The exponential rise in popularity of distributed energy resources (DERs) is attributed to their numerous benefits within the power sector. However, the risks that new DERs pose to the power grid have not yet been closely assessed, exposing a gap in the ...

Smart grid involves application of information and communication technology (ICT) for monitoring, protection, operation and control of interconnected power systems under various scenarios. Smart grid control (SGC) is an important aspect that is constantly ...

This work presents an experimental evaluation of the detection performance of eight different algorithms for anomaly detection on the Controller Area Network (CAN) bus of modern vehicles based on the analysis of the timing or frequency of CAN messages. ...

In vision-based object recognition systems, imaging sensors perceive the environment and then objects are detected and classified for decision-making purposes, e.g., to maneuver an automated vehicle around an obstacle or to raise alarms for intruders in ...

The lack of any sender authentication mechanism in place makes Controller Area Network (CAN) vulnerable to security threats. For instance, an attacker can impersonate an Electronic Control Unit (ECU) on the bus and send spoofed messages unobtrusively with ...

Electric Vehicles (EVs) represent a green alternative to traditional fuel-powered vehicles. To enforce their widespread use, both the technical development and the security of users shall be guaranteed. Users’ privacy represents a possible threat that ...

The motivation of this research (and also one of the nation’s cyber goals) is enhancing the resilience of Industrial Control Systems (ICS)/Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems against ransomware attacks. ICS and SCADA systems run some ...

Increasingly Industrial Control Systems (ICS) systems are being connected to the Internet to minimise the operational costs and provide additional flexibility. These control systems such as the ones used in power grids, manufacturing and utilities operate ...

Industrial Internet plays an important role in key critical infrastructure sectors and is the target of different security threats and risks. There are limitations in many existing attack detection approaches, such as function redundancy, overfitting, and ...

Automotive Keyless Entry (RKE) systems provide car owners with a degree of convenience, allowing them to lock and unlock their car without using a mechanical key. Today’s RKE systems implement disposable rolling codes, making every key fob button press ...

Route Planning Systems (RPS) are a core component of autonomous personal transport systems essential for safe and efficient navigation of dynamic urban environments with the support of edge-based smart city infrastructure, but they also raise concerns ...

The adoption rate of EVs has witnessed a significant increase in recent years driven by multiple factors, chief among which is the increased flexibility and ease of access to charging infrastructure. To improve user experience and increase system ...

Successful attacks against industrial control systems (ICSs) often exploit insufficient checking mechanisms. While firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and similar appliances introduce essential checks, their efficacy depends on the attackers’ ability ...

The railway domain is regulated by rigorous safety standards to ensure that specific safety goals are met. Often, safety-critical systems rely on custom hardware-software components that are built from scratch to achieve specific functional and non-...

A weakly-hard fault model can be captured by an (m,k) constraint, where 0≤ m≤ k, meaning that there are at most m bad events (faults) among any k consecutive events. In this article, we use a weakly-hard fault model to constrain the occurrences of faults ...

Security of cyber-physical systems (CPS) continues to pose new challenges due to the tight integration and operational complexity of the cyber and physical components. To address these challenges, this article presents a domain-aware, optimization-based ...

Recent considerable state-of-the-art advancements within the automotive sector, coupled with an evolution of the promising paradigms of vehicle-to-everything communication and the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), have facilitated vehicles to generate and, ...