RESEARCHERS in the US are warning of the dangers posed by cyber security breaches to the emerging technology of 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing.
Additive manufacturing, where an object is ‘printed’ from a CAD file usually using metal, ceramic or polymer materials, is becoming increasingly popular as a way to produce small batch products, for rapid prototyping or producing specialist parts. It has recently been approved by the US Federal Aviation Administration to produce a part for commercial jet engines. However, Ramesh Karri and a team of cyber security experts and materials engineers at New York’s Tandon School of Engineering, say that defects could be introduced to the CAD files as part of a cyber attack.
Karri and the team say that an attacker could hack into a 3D printer connected to the internet to make changes. They believe that two specific problems are most vulnerable – the insertion of fine defects within the body of an object, and the orientation of the printer nozzles. For the full article click here
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