https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190606101822.htm > Cybersecurity researcher Karthik Pattabiraman, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at UBC, recently developed an automated program aimed at improving the security of these devices and boosting security in the smart grid. > "Our program uses two detection methods for these types of attacks. First, we created a virtual model of the smart meter and represented how attacks can be carried out against it. This is what we call design-level analysis. Second, we performed code-level analysis. That means probing the smart meter's code for vulnerabilities, launching a variety of attacks on these vulnerabilities," said Pattabiraman.