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I enjoy seeing modules that can make designing other devices easier, and when I did a call for design reviews, [enp6s0] has submitted one such board to us. It’s a …read more Continue reading PCB Design Review: Tinysparrow, A Module For CAN Hacking Needs
One of the biggest upsides of open communications standards such as CAN or SPI is that a whole world of vehicle hacking becomes available, from simple projects like adding sensors …read more Continue reading A Dashboard Outside The Car
The first clue was that a number of locomotives started malfunctioning with exactly 1,000,000 km on the odometer. And when the company with the contract for servicing them couldn’t figure …read more Continue reading Unbricking Trains, Uncovering Shady Behavior
The CAN bus, accessible through the OBD-II port, is the channel that holds all the secrets of the modern automobile. If you want to display those for your own perusal, …read more Continue reading ESP32 Used As Wireless CAN Bus Reader
When looking the modify a passenger vehicle, the Controller Area Network (CAN) bus is a pretty easy target. In modern vehicles it has access to most of the on-board systems …read more Continue reading Get MOST Into Your Pi
As the old saying goes, there’s no such thing as a lock that can’t be picked. However, it seems like there are plenty of examples of car manufacturers that refuse …read more Continue reading Car Security System Monitors Tiny Voltage Fluctuations
Arthur C. Clarke said that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. He was a sci-fi writer, though, and not a security guy. Maybe it should read “Any sufficiently …read more Continue reading Sufficiently Advanced Tech: Has Bugs
You may not be familiar with the Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) service, a store and forward sort of inter-process and inter-system communication service. MSMQ has become something of a legacy …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: QueueJumper, JS VM2 Escape, and CAN Hacking
The widespread adoption of the CAN bus (and OBD-II) in automobiles was largely a way of standardizing the maintenance of increasingly complicated engines and their needs to meet modern emissions …read more Continue reading Probing CAN Bus for EV Battery Info
With cars being essentially CAN buses on wheels, it’s no wonder that there’s a lot of juicy information about the car’s status zipping about on these buses. The main question …read more Continue reading Volvo C30 Custom Gauge And CAN Bus Reverse Engineering