Car Hacking

I haven’t stopped at home for a few days. conferences and talks about risks in the connected car. Although the ‘connected car’ is quite clear, I’m going to explain it in case any of my six followers (yes, one has been deleted: () you don’t know what it is: we’re talking about current and coming cars, connected to the outside via the Internet or beacons on the streets that inform you of the state of traffic or meteology in real time works or accidents and Help them make decisions when these cars become self-employed.

It seems that talking about autonomous cars is talking about a distant future, but it is simply because we are in Spain and here the legislation does not allow it. In other countries, self-employed cars are already in the testing phase with a security driver who takes control only in emergency situations.

As we have already said, these cars will be connected to those known as smart-cities o smart cities, where there are a lot of connected elements and artificial intelligence processes that are able to make decisions like changing the state of the traffic traffic lights or providing buses from low-use lines to others in times of saturation such as the departure of a concert or after a football match. Everything very modern and intelligent without the need for a lord (or lady) to make the decision and press buttons.

Let’s talk about cars again. Or not, let’s talk about networks and connections. Or everything together. The point is, these cars will receive information from the outside to, for example, decide the best route to take you home from work. With this information, they will configure your GPS to drive you through the less congested streets. But, What if someone could alter this information or just trick your GPS? Well, that’s basically what I’m talking about these days at different congresses. Do you think it’s science-fiction? So look at the videos we recorded for the RootedCON Valencia a few weeks ago.

in the presentation:

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What is the RootedCON?

The RootedCON is a Congress of Security and Hacking which takes place in two Spanish cities every year, Madrid and Valencia. It’s one of the reference congresses where there are vulnerabilities and papers that have not been made known until then, that is, the latest news and discoveries are presented… something like Paris Fashion Week… but in hacker.

This year we presented a partner of GMV (Igor Robles) and I a paper on Car Hacking without much hope that they would accept it… but they did. To the RootedCON you cannot go with a generic presentation to tell where the bad guys are going to come from and what we have to take into account, you have to carry something tangible that they can actually check empirically, so we warn a few days before the event and recommend that the attendees not take their own cars to the event and use Valencia’s efficient public transport network:

The talk was so good and it was so fun that we have been called from several events in which we will talk about the connected cars so that we would repeat more or less the idea of the Rooted but without going into so many technical details (in the Rooted Igor he distripped a CANBUS plot and began to explain what was every bit of information… in that event people expected that, but in the more institutional events of these days if I say that they may leave me in the middle of the conference and not invite us again). You’d have to see the public’s face when We taught how to capture events that go through the network

of the car when you turn the steering wheel for the park-assist (the function that of parking automatically and that everyone is flattened… I don’t understand very well why, if you have 12 cameras and sensors and besides the parked objects do not move, it is nothing difficult to park a car in the hole). The fact is that once this information is captured and polished, it is possible to inject it into the car at any time even if it is not parking… do you imagine sending a steering wheel to a car when it is circulating at 120 km / h on a highway? For it is not science fiction either, I recommend again that you take a

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By the way, following the RootedCON, I was also interviewed at ‘Technology and Common Sense’ the radio programme of professionals in project management, service management, risk management, process management and IT government of the hand of the great Javier Peris. If you want to hear the interview is available from the 48: 00 minute, although I recommend you listen to the whole podcast because it has no waste:

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Other events and saraos

This post will be published from Malaga, where I go to the event S-Moving Smart, Autonomous and Unmanaged vehicles Forum to participate in a round table on CyberSecurity in the connected car. If you’re on Malaga and you read me in time, you’re invited to go to the CyberSecurity table with this code:

Besides, next week I’ll be in León at the ENISE, the Congress of CyberSecurity that organizes the National Institute of CyberSecurity every year, to talk about the latest vulnerabilities discovered in connected cars and how the industry can deal with this whole brand of technological challenges that they will face from now on.

The best of all is that the new generations that are the ones that will really have to deal with the problem are very interested in hearing this speech about the risks of connected cars, so On November 6, I was invited to talk about it at an event on Network Attacks to be held at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. I’m sorry I can’t give you more information about it, but it’s a student event, so it’s not open to the general public.

And How about all this? It gives the feeling that we’re much safer with a 15-year-old car that’s not connected to anything and that the most modern thing I had was a radio-CD, right? Or are you the ones who trust technology thinking that there will be someone thinking about all this when you buy a new car?. Leave me your comments at the entrance, please, that it is very good for me to know your opinion to change the approach of the conferences:)