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Looking Into The Eye Of The Meter

Type
Slides
Tags
hardware hacking
Authors
Don C. Weber
Event
Black Hat USA 2012
Indexed on
May 09, 2014
URL
https://media.blackhat.com/bh-us-12/Briefings/Weber/BH_US_12_Weber_Eye_of_the_Meter_Slides.pdf
File name
BH_US_12_Weber_Eye_of_the_Meter_Slides.pdf
File size
2.8 MB
MD5
243b08a4b748e0457374dfbabfeba703
SHA1
3506a8cdfcd5eceab7e511383336f41afeb42289

When you look at a Smart Meter, it practically winks at you. Their Optical Port calls to you. It calls to criminals as well. But how do criminals interact with it? We will show you how they look into the eye of the meter. More specifically, this presentation will show how criminals gather information from meters to do their dirty work. From quick memory acquisition techniques to more complex hardware bus sniffing, the techniques outlined in this presentation will show how authentication credentials are acquired. Finally, a method for interacting with a meter's IR port will be introduced to show that vendor specific software is not necessary to poke a meter in the eye. This IS the talk that was not presented at ShmooCon 2012 in response to requests from a Smart Grid vendor and the concerns of several utilities. We have worked with them. They should be okay with this.....should.....

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