The widespread utilization of network protocols raises many security and privacy concerns.
To address them, protocol reverse-engineering (PRE) has been broadly applied in diverse …

The development of the industrial Internet of Things enables industrial control systems to
become inter-networked and inter-connected, making them intelligent with high productivity …

Protocol implementations are essential components in network infrastructures. Flaws hidden
in the implementations can easily render devices vulnerable to adversaries. Therefore …

Automatic protocol reverse engineering is essential for various security applications. While
many existing techniques achieve this task by analyzing static network traces, they face …

Nowadays, unattended device rental services with cellular IoT controllers, such as e-
scooters and EV chargers, are widely deployed in public areas around the world, offering …

The supervisory software is widely used in industrial control systems (ICSs) to manage field
devices such as PLC controllers. Once compromised, it could be misused to control or …

Industrial control systems (ICS) play a critical role in the operation of our vital infrastructures.
They consist of field sites and a control center, with programmable logic controllers (PLCs) …

We present BinaryInferno, a fully automatic tool for reverse engineering binary message
formats. Given a set of messages with the same format, the tool uses an ensemble of …

Reverse engineering of protocol message formats is critical for many security applications.
Mainstream techniques use dynamic analysis and inherit its low-coverage problem—the …

Programmable logic controllers (PLCs), the essential components of critical infrastructure,
play a crucial role in various industrial manufacturing processes. Recent attack events show …