Wireless Car Sensors Vulnerable to Hackers

Ravirn · 08-11-2010, 08:28 PM

Found an interesting article relating to the hacking of tire-pressure-monitoring-systems (TPMS).

The complete article can be found in the link above @ Technology Review, and was written by Robert Lemos.

A quote from the first page of the article: "...The team could eavesdrop on communications and, in some circumstances, alter messages in-transit. That let the team give false readings to a car's dashboard. They could also track a vehicle's movements using the unique IDs of the pressure sensors, and even cause a car's ECU to fail completely"

The research team that discovered how to hack two "popular" TMPSs is presenting their work at the USENIX Security conference this week.

While a practical hack on a moving vehicle would be difficult at best, I thought it interesting that they could shadow a vehicle with directional antennas and effectively hack the ECU. Not fun!!!

Michelle42780 · 08-11-2010, 09:10 PM

Ravirn · 08-11-2010, 09:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Michelle42780

What's it a conspiracy of?

Nice pic, btw.

Myself, I pictured it as more of a black-suburban-with-feds-in-it kind of moment. (Trying to keep it in the GM family)

Michelle42780 · 08-11-2010, 09:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ravirn

What's it a conspiracy of?

Nice pic, btw.

Everything is a conspiracy, you didn't know??

Well damn, scratch the cat pic. Here ya go...

2ndgenz28 · 08-11-2010, 11:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Michelle42780

Everything is a conspiracy

Why someone smart has a selection of points type Dizzys and spare parts for a typical American car in their survival kit. As once the bombs drop and all those EMP waves make every electronic part useless, those will still work

Ravirn · 08-12-2010, 03:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Michelle42780

Everything is a conspiracy, you didn't know??

Well damn, scratch the cat pic. Here ya go...

Oh... my... that's awesome!!!

08-11-2010, 08:28 PM	#1
Ravirn Account Unaccounted for Drives: Black SS Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Alberta, Canada Posts: 1,703	Wireless Car Sensors Vulnerable to Hackers Found an interesting article relating to the hacking of tire-pressure-monitoring-systems (TPMS). The complete article can be found in the link above @ Technology Review, and was written by Robert Lemos. A quote from the first page of the article: "...The team could eavesdrop on communications and, in some circumstances, alter messages in-transit. That let the team give false readings to a car's dashboard. They could also track a vehicle's movements using the unique IDs of the pressure sensors, and even cause a car's ECU to fail completely" The research team that discovered how to hack two "popular" TMPSs is presenting their work at the USENIX Security conference this week. While a practical hack on a moving vehicle would be difficult at best, I thought it interesting that they could shadow a vehicle with directional antennas and effectively hack the ECU. Not fun!!! __________________ WARLOCK (Black 2SSRS LS3) - A work in progress.

08-11-2010, 09:10 PM	#2
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