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Vehicle Security and Car Hacking

The "Awesome Vehicle Security and Car Hacking" project is a comprehensive collection of resources focused on the security aspects of modern vehicles and the techniques used in car hacking. This list covers a wide range of topics, including security vulnerabilities, penetration testing tools, research papers, tutorials, and community discussions related to automotive cybersecurity. It is valuable for security researchers, automotive engineers, and enthusiasts who want to understand vehicle security mechanisms and explore the potential risks associated with connected cars. Whether you're looking to enhance your knowledge or develop skills in vehicle security, this collection provides essential insights and tools to navigate the evolving landscape of automotive technology.

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Table of Contents

20 sections · 205 projects

General

2 projects
Awesome CAN Bus - an awesome list just for CAN Bus-related tools (hardware, software, etc.)
Awesome CAN Bus - an awesome list just for CAN Bus-related tools (hardware, software, etc.)

A curated list of tools, hardware, and resources for CAN bus reverse engineering, security research, and automotive electronics.

3,3551 month ago
Awesome LIN Bus - an awesome list just for LIN-Bus related tools (hardware, software, etc.)
Awesome LIN Bus - an awesome list just for LIN-Bus related tools (hardware, software, etc.)

A curated list of tools, hardware, and resources for reverse engineering LIN bus devices in automotive embedded systems.

2452 years ago

Articles

14 projects
How to hack a car — a quick crash-course
medium.freecodecamp.org
Stopping a Jeep Cherokee on the Highway Remotely
wired.com
Troy Hunt on Controlling Nissans
troyhunt.com
Tesla hackers explain how they did it at Defcon
cnet.com
Anatomy of the Rolljam Wireless Car Hack
makezine.com
IOActive's Tools and Data
blog.ioactive.com
Developments in Car Hacking
sans.org
Car Hacking on the Cheap
ioactive.com
Car Hacking: The definitive source
illmatics.com
Car Hacking on the cheap
community.rapid7.com
Researchers tackle autonomous vehicle security
phys.org
Reverse engineering of the Nitro OBD2
blog.quarkslab.com
Analysis of an old Subaru Impreza - Subaru Select Monitor v1 (SSM1)
p1kachu.pluggi.fr
Car Hacking in 30 Minutes or Less
brysonpayne.com

Presentations

30 projects
"Hopping on the CAN Bus" from BlackHat Asia 2015
blackhat.com
"Drive It Like You Hacked It" from DEFCON 23
samy.pl
Samy Kamkar on Hacking Vehicles with OnStar
youtube.com
Remote Exploitation of an Unaltered Passenger Vehicle
youtube.com
Adventures in Automotive Networks and Control Units
youtube.com
Can You Trust Autonomous Vehicles?
youtube.com
Ken Munro & Dave Lodge - Hacking the Mitsubishi Outlander & IOT
youtube.com
FREE-FALL: HACKING TESLA FROM WIRELESS TO CAN BUS
blackhat.com
Car Hacking 101
youtube.com
State of Automotive Cyber Safety, 2015
youtube.com
State of Automotive Cyber Safety, 2016
youtube.com
How to Hack a Tesla Model S
youtube.com
Car Hacking Videos
tekeye.uk
Self-Driving and Connected Cars: Fooling Sensors and Tracking Drivers
youtube.com
A Survey of Remote Automotive Attack Surfaces
youtube.com
Pentesting vehicles with YACHT (Yet Another Car Hacking Tool)
blackhat.com
How to drift with any car
youtube.com
Car Infotainment Hacking Methodology and Attack Surface Scenario
youtube.com
TR19: Automotive Penetration Testing with Scapy
youtube.com
Analysis and Defense of Automotive Networks
youtube.com
Remote Exploitation of Honda Cars
youtube.com
TR22: UDS Fuzzing and the Path to Game Over
youtube.com
CCC - Horror Stories From the Automotive Industry
youtube.com
Car Hacking Scene in the PH: How Far We've Come
youtube.com
Analysis of an In-vehicular network: From CAN bus to infotainment
youtube.com
An overview of Automotive Defensive Engineering
youtube.com
Hacking Back Your Car
youtube.com
TR23: V2GEvil: Ghost in the wires
youtube.com
DEF CON CHV - V2GEvil: Ghost in the wires
youtube.com
The hack, the crash and two smoking barrels. (And all the times I (almost) killed an engineer.)
youtube.com

Books

7 projects
2014 Car Hacker's Handbook
amazon.com
2016 Car Hacker's Handbook
amazon.com
A Comprehensible Guide to Controller Area Network
amazon.com
智能汽车安全攻防大揭秘
amazon.cn
Controller Area Network Prototyping with Arduino
amazon.com
Embedded Networking with CAN and CANopen
amazon.com
Inside Radio: An Attack and Defense Guide
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Research Papers

21 projects
Koscher et al. Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile, 2010
autosec.org
Comprehensive Experimental Analyses of Automotive Attack Surfaces, 2011
static.usenix.org
Car Hacking: The definitive source
illmatics.com
Adventures in Automotive Networks and Control Units (aka car hacking)
illmatics.com
Car Hacking for Poories
illmatics.com
A Survey of Remote Automotive Attack Surfaces, 2014
illmatics.com
Remote Compromise of an Unaltered Passenger Vehicle (aka The Jeep Hack), 2015
illmatics.com
Advanced CAN Message Injection, 2016
illmatics.com
5-Star Automotive Cyber Safety Framework, 2015
iamthecavalry.org
A Vulnerability in Modern Automotive Standards and How We Exploited It
documents.trendmicro.com
A Car Hacking Experiment: When Connectivity Meets Vulnerability
ieeexplore.ieee.org
Security issues and vulnerabilities in connected car systems
ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automobile Driver Fingerprinting, 2016
autosec.org
Intrusion detection system based on the analysis of time intervals of CAN messages for in-vehicle network, 2016
ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modeling Inter-Signal Arrival Times for Accurate Detection of CAN Bus Signal Injection Attacks
dl.acm.org
The Connected Car - Ways to get unauthorized access and potential implications, 2018
computest.nl
CAN-D: A Modular Four-Step Pipeline for Comprehensively Decoding Controller Area Network Data
arxiv.org
Time-Based CAN Intrusion Detection Benchmark
arxiv.org
Addressing the Lack of Comparability & Testing in CAN Intrusion Detection Research: A Comprehensive Guide to CAN IDS Data & Introduction of the ROAD Dataset
arxiv.org
On the Insecurity of Vehicles Against Protocol-Level Bluetooth Threats
hexhive.epfl.ch
Pavel, K. Vehicle On-Board Charging Security Scanner, 2024
dspace.cvut.cz