Author name: Robert Leale

In diagnostic messaging, services are the functions.  Think of each command as a sentence.  The service is the verb. In standard OBDII services are often referred to as Modes.  You can also think of them as functions to be performed by the controller(s) that you are commanding.With diagnostic messages, there is always a command and […]

I will be doing a quick 1 hour presentation at this year’s HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) conference at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York, NY July 13-15 (http://www.hopenumbernine.net).  The title will be “Exploited from Detroit.”  I plan to talk about how to get started in Reverse Engineering vehicle network data and give some particle

Some services are boring.. like really, really, really, boring.. but others can make the car move gauges or make the car’s warning lights light up.  Here is a bit more about these types of services. Stop Normal Communications (GMLAN and Others):This service is fun because you can make the Normal Communications (the ECU to ECU

Because diagnostics is really just a simple way to interact with an ECU, there are a few very common diagnostic services that you’ll find in nearly every permutation of diagnostics. Tester Present:Definitely the most common service you’ll find, tester present (typically 0x3E) is used to let the controller(s) know that there is a.. wait for

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This year’s Defcon will host yours truely.  I will be giving a workshop on CAN BUS Hacking.  So if you have some time come out and join us at Defcon August 4~7 @ the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. Please check out www.defcon.org for more information about what days the workshops will be held.

Every CAN message has an Identifier.  This is referred to as the Arbitration ID or ArbID.  It serves two functions.  First, it is to help identify the payload or data of the frame. Second, because no two modules are allowed to send a frame with the same ID, it serves as an arbitration method on

With thousands of data parameters flowing continuously along one or more CAN Buses in any particular vehicle, there is no doubt that finding out what these parameters mean can be very benificial, but, in having the data, you can also use it to simulate what is there. So why would you want to simulate what

Let me start out with this statement: my OSEK skills are decent, but I’m not the foremost expert here.  I will tell you what I know and leave it up to you to belittle me in the comment section.  Thank you. The OSEK standard is a large section of documents that cover many, many aspects

A legal requirement in most countries, including the U.S., odometer is the measure of the distance your vehicle has traveled. Possibly, this is to aid sellers of the car in appraising the true market value of the vehicle. Many people have requested if there was a way to modify this value so that they could