Collaborate Disseminate
For home use IoT systems, getting sensor data from tons of physical locations centralized to a single Raspberry Pi can be a difficult job, especially when considering the power consumption that’s necessary for doing it all over WiFi. When you’re using an ESP8266, for instance, swapping out batteries and accounting …read more
Continue reading A Low-Power Solution To Streamlining Sensor Data For IoT
When [Nishanth]’s Subaru BRZ came to a sudden halt, he was saddened by the wait to get a new engine installed. Fortunately, he was able to cheer himself up by hacking it into a car simulator in the mean time. This would have the added benefit of not being limited …read more
Continue reading When Your Car Breaks Down, Simply Hack It Into A Simulator
This has been an interesting week. First off, security researchers at Armis discovered a set of serious vulnerabilities in the vxWorks Real Time Operating System (RTOS). Released under a name that sounds like the title of a western or caper movie, Urgent/11. Not familiar with vxWorks? It’s a toss-up as …read more
Continue reading This Week in Security: vxWorks, Expensive Email Fraud, and What’s in Your Wallet?
An insecure networking standard could allow a hacker with physical access to a small aircraft to trick the plane’s equipment into giving false readings of critical flight data, according to a warning from the Department of Homeland Security. The vulnerability, discovered by cybersecurity company Rapid7, is in the implementation of CAN bus, a popular networking standard that allows communication between microcontrollers in planes, cars and other machinery. A hacker would need physical access to carry out the hypothetical attack, which involves attaching a device to the plane’s CAN bus to insert false data. Engine readings, altitude and airspeed are among the data that could be manipulated, according to Rapid7 researcher Patrick Kiley. Kiley said the aviation sector is lagging in securing CAN bus networks because of an apparent reliance on physical security. Because the assumption is that hackers won’t get physical access to airplanes, “the increased perceived physical security of […]
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In the old days, a physical button or switch on the dashboard of your car would have been wired to whatever device it was controlling. There was potentially a relay in the mix, but still, it wasn’t too hard to follow wires through the harness and figure out where they …read more
Continue reading Developing An Automatic Tool For CAN Bus Hacking
Video games, while entertaining to be sure, are a great way to experience things that could not easily be recreated in real life. Shooting aliens on a giant ring in space is an obvious example, but there are some more realistic examples that video games make much more accessible, such …read more
Part of the fun of watching action movies is imagining yourself as the main character, always going on exciting adventures and, of course, being accompanied by the perfect soundtrack to score the excitement and drama of your life. While having an orchestra follow you around might not always be practical, [P1kachu] at least figured out how to get some musical orchestration to sync up with how he drives his car, Fast-and-Furious style.
The idea is pretty straightforward: when [P1kachu] drives his car calmly and slowly, the music that the infotainment system plays is cool and reserved. But when he drops …read more
Continue reading Adaptive Infotainment Plays Tunes To Match Your Dangerous Driving
Part of the fun of watching action movies is imagining yourself as the main character, always going on exciting adventures and, of course, being accompanied by the perfect soundtrack to score the excitement and drama of your life. While having an orchestra follow you around might not always be practical, [P1kachu] at least figured out how to get some musical orchestration to sync up with how he drives his car, Fast-and-Furious style.
The idea is pretty straightforward: when [P1kachu] drives his car calmly and slowly, the music that the infotainment system plays is cool and reserved. But when he drops …read more
Continue reading Adaptive Infotainment Plays Tunes To Match Your Dangerous Driving
The CAN bus is a rich vein to mine for a hacker: allowing the electronic elements of most current vehicles to be re-purposed and controlled with ease. [MikrocontrollerProjekte] has reverse engineered a CAN bus media and navigation controller and connected it to an STM32F746G-Discovery board. The STM32 is in turn connected to an Android phone, and allows the media controller to trigger a large number of functions on the phone, including music playback, maps, and general Android navigation.
When reverse engineering the controller, [MikrocontrollerProjekte] employed a variety of approaches. A small amount of information was found online, some fuzzing was …read more
Continue reading Reverse Engineered Media Controller From Car Is Best Friends With Android
The CAN bus has become a staple of automotive engineering since it was introduced in the late ’80s, but in parallel with the spread of electronic devices almost every single piece of equipment inside a car has been put on the CAN bus. While there are opinions on whether or not this is a good thing, the reality is that enough data is gathered on this bus to turn an unmodified modern car into a video game controller with just a little bit of code.
The core of [Scott]’s project is a laptop and a Python program that scrapes information …read more
