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Robots are widely deployed in industrial manufacturing environments. Cyber compromises of industrial robots pose threats to products and services, to the robots as well as to human workers. Previous security studies of robots have focused on network service vulnerabilities and privileged execution. However, research has not examined robot software updates and their security features. This chapter investigates the security features of software updates for a Universal Robots UR3 cobot, one of the most commonly-used collaborative industrial robots.
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Chan, CF., Chow, KP., Tang, T. (2022). Security Analysis of Software Updates for Industrial Robots. In: Staggs, J., Shenoi, S. (eds) Critical Infrastructure Protection XV. ICCIP 2021. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 636. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93511-5_11
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