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Cyber-physical system (CPS) security for the smart grid enables secure communication for the SCADA and wide-area measurement system data. Power utilities world-wide use various SCADA protocols, namely DNP3, Modbus, and IEC 61850, for the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-12 Sathya Narayana Mohan , Gelli Ravikumar , Manimaran Govindarasu

Billions of people rely on essential utility and manufacturing infrastructures such as water treatment plants, energy management, and food production. Our dependence on reliable infrastructures makes them valuable targets for cyberattacks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Efrén López-Morales , Ulysse Planta , Carlos Rubio-Medrano , Ali Abbasi , Alvaro A. Cardenas

Side-channel attacks exploit unintended information leakage from system behavior and continue to pose serious privacy risks in modern platforms. Despite extensive prior work, side-channel analysis remains largely manual and fragmented,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhen Xu , Zihao Wang , Yuhua Sun , XiaoFeng Wang

As water distribution networks (WDNs) become increasingly connected with digital infrastructures, they face greater exposure to cyberattacks that threaten their operational integrity. Stealthy False Data Injection Attacks (SFDIAs) are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Abdallah Alalem Albustami , Ahmad F. Taha

In recent years, a number of process-based anomaly detection schemes for Industrial Control Systems were proposed. In this work, we provide the first systematic analysis of such schemes, and introduce a taxonomy of properties that are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Alessandro Erba , Nils Ole Tippenhauer

This paper quantifies the security of uncertain interconnected systems under stealthy data injection attacks. In particular, we consider a large-scale system composed of a certain subsystem interconnected with an uncertain subsystem, where…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Anh Tung Nguyen , Sribalaji C. Anand , André M. H. Teixeira

Vehicular controller area networks (CANs) are susceptible to masquerade attacks by malicious adversaries. In masquerade attacks, adversaries silence a targeted ID and then send malicious frames with forged content at the expected timing of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Pablo Moriano , Steven C. Hespeler , Mingyan Li , Robert A. Bridges

For a safe and reliable operation of the smart grid, timely detection of cyber-attacks is of critical importance. Moreover, considering smarter and more capable attackers, robust detection mechanisms are needed against a diverse range of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Mehmet Necip Kurt , Yasin Yilmaz , Xiaodong Wang

Automated vulnerability detection in critical-infrastructure software confronts a fundamental barrier: industrial software is routinely deployed as stripped, symbol-free binaries that deprive conventional Software Composition Analysis of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Bowei Ning , Xuejun Zong , Lian Lian , Kan He , Yifei Sun , Yuxiang Lei , Plamen Vasilev

Although adverse effects of attacks have been acknowledged in many cyber-physical systems, there is no system-theoretic comprehension of how a compromised agent can leverage communication capabilities to maximize the damage in distributed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Rohollah Moghadam , Hamidreza Modares

In the very last years, cybersecurity attacks have increased at an unprecedented pace, becoming ever more sophisticated and costly. Their impact has involved both private/public companies and critical infrastructures. At the same time, due…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Filippo Sobrero , Beatrice Clavarezza , Daniele Ucci , Federica Bisio

In many security applications of cyber-physical systems, a system designer must guarantee that critical missions are satisfied against attacks in the sensors and actuators of the CPS. Traditional security design of CPSs often assume that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Sumukha Udupa , Ahmed Hemida , Charles A. Kamhoua , Jie Fu

Recent years have witnessed the fast advance of security research for networked dynamical system (NDS). Considering the latest inference attacks that enable stealthy and precise attacks into NDSs with observation-based learning, this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Jianping He , Yushan Li , Lin Cai , Xinping Guan

The integration of communication networks and the Internet of Things (IoT) in Industrial Control Systems (ICSs) increases their vulnerability towards cyber-attacks, causing devastating outcomes. Traditional Intrusion Detection Systems…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Abdulrahman Al-Abassi , Hadis Karimipour , Ali Dehghantanha , Reza M. Parizi

Man-in-The-Middle (MiTM) attacks present numerous threats to a smart grid. In a MiTM attack, an intruder embeds itself within a conversation between two devices to either eavesdrop or impersonate one of the devices, making it appear to be a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Patrick Wlazlo , Abhijeet Sahu , Zeyu Mao , Hao Huang , Ana Goulart , Katherine Davis , Saman Zonouz

This paper investigates the problem of synthesizing sensor deception attackers against privacy in the context of supervisory control of discrete-event systems (DES). We consider a DES plant controlled by a supervisor, which is subject to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Jingshi Yao , Xiang Yin , Shaoyuan Li

This paper studies the consequences of a human-initiated targeted attack on the national electric power system. We consider two kinds of attacks: ($i$) an attack by an adversary that uses a tactical weapon and destroys a large part of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Rounak Meyur

Owing to a growing number of attacks, the assessment of Industrial Control Systems (ICSs) has gained in importance. An integral part of an assessment is the creation of a detailed inventory of all connected devices, enabling vulnerability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Matthias Niedermaier , Thomas Hanka , Sven Plaga , Alexander von Bodisco , Dominik Merli

Cyber attacks have become serious threats to Industrial Control systems as well. It becomes important to develop a serious threat defense system against such vulnerabilities. For such process control systems, safety should also be assured…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Manikanta Reddy Dornala

Considering the attacks against industrial control system are mostly organized and premeditated actions, IP traceback is significant for the security of industrial control system. Based on the infrastructure of the Internet, we have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Feng Xiao , Qiang Xu