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The Register That Lied: Fieldbus, Industrial Protocols and Their Attack Surface
At half past two in the morning, fictional operator Farida Al-Mansoori sees a heater temperature that hasn't moved for forty minutes, and instrument tech Tomasz Wieczorek finds the transmitter reading eleven degrees higher. Somewhere between field and screen, a number stopped telling the truth. In episode one hundred and seventy we follow a request byte by byte down the wire and tour the industrial protocol zoo, from Modbus in 1979 to OPC UA and time-sensitive networking. We see why most of these protocols obey anyone, go through the real attacks that used them, including the January 2024…
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