Car Hacking Really Is For Dummies With This Sexy (And Free) Software

Craig Smith does car hacking as safely as possible.

The softly-spoken security researcher doesn’t take risks like cutting cars’ power on public roads, as executed on a Jeep by researchers last year. Indeed, he warns against such stunt hacking, something he tends not to partake in. Yet Smith is one of the pre-eminent automotive security experts on the planet, author of the Car Hacker’s Handbook and the founder of the Open Garages vehicle research lab.

Now Smith wants to let everyone, even those without any technical ability, to start finding security problems with their automobile. This week at the Nullcon conference in Goa, India, he’s releasing a free tool, UDSim, that will automatically start “fuzzing” a car at the click of a button. Fuzzing sees different kinds of junk data thrown across a network, the point being to seek out errors. Where those errors are returned a security hole may lie, one possibly exploitable by hackers. Smith has incorporated the Peach fuzzer, an open source framework, into UDSim. For the full article click here

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