The Risk from Power Lines: How to Sniff the G3 and Prime Data and Detect the Interfere Attack

Black Hat USA 2016

Presented by: Lei Ji, Yunding Jian
Date: Wednesday August 03, 2016
Time: 17:30 - 18:00
Location: South Seas IJ

Power line communication (PLC) is a kind of communication technology which uses the power line as the communication media. The PLC technology is divided with 2 sub-field: narrow-band PLC and wide-band PLC. For the narrow-band PLC, there are 2 very import standards: Prime and G3. Both the standards are widely used in AMR and electric monitor system and it lead to the rise of threat in AMR system security and electric safety. This topic will talk about how to get the PLC data stream in a PLC communication system which would use G3 or Prime standard, and will also talk about how to detect attacking in the net. We will focus on how to identify which kind of standard the system using and how to sniff the PLC data in physical level.

Lei Ji

From April 2016 to today, Lei Ji has served as the wireless product regionalmarketing manager in North China for Cypress Semiconductor. From April 2015 tothe present,he has been an honorary advisor of Unicorn Team of Qihoo360. FromMay 2011 to April 2015, he was MCU and wireless connective (WCS) FAE at TexasInstruments Semiconductor Technologies(Shanghai) Co.,Ltd. Beijing Branch. Hismain duties and responsibilities included: supporting wireless customers inNorthern & Western China from 2012 to 2015 and supporting MCU customers inBeijing and Northeastern China from 2011 to 2013. From June 2007 to May 2011,Lei was Chief Engineer at Beijing Shi Dai Jin Pu Technology development co.,Ltd. His main duties and responsibilities included: leading WSN andautomobile-electronic business as technical director, designing thefirefighter monitor system project which is required by the Beijing Scienceand Technology Committee, and applying one patent about wireless sensor net.

Yunding Jian

Yunding Jian is a senior hardware architect at UnicornTeam, Qihoo360. He hasrich experiences in hardware security and wireless security. He is the creatorof the badges for the Syscan360 security conference and he is also thedesigner of the sensors for the Tianxun wireless intrusion detection systemmanufactured by Qihoo360.


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