This one’s a treasure trove of CAN bus hacks that will frighten the crap out of an unsuspecting motorist — or worse. [Charlie Miller] as well as [Chris Valasek] are getting prepared to present their findings, which were underwritten by DARPA, at this year’s Defcon. They provided a Forbes reporter a turn in the driver’s seat in buy to show off.
You’ve got to see the video on this one. We haven’t had this much fun checking out potentially deadly cars and truck hacking considering that Waterloo Labs made a decision to go surfing on an Olds. The hacks shown off begin as seemingly innocent data tweaks, like misrepresenting your fuel level or showing 199 mph on the speedometer while the cars and truck is standing still. however things begin to get fascinating when they take that speed readout from 199 down to zero instantly, which has the impact of telling the cars and truck you’ve been in a accident (don’t worry, the airbags don’t fire). other devilish techniques include yanking the steering wheel to one side by issuing a command telling the cars and truck to park itself when driving down the road. Worst of all is the capability to disable the brakes while the automobile is in motion. Oh the pedal still moves, however the brake calipers don’t respond.
The function of the work is to highlight areas where automobile makers requirement to tighten up security. It definitely provides us an concept of what we’ll see in the next Bond film.
[Thanks Matt]