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Defending the CAN bus Part 2: Cryptography

Each episode in the series covers one technique for defending the CAN bus. Episode 1 introduced CAN attacks and talked about intrusion detection, the CCTV of CAN bus.

Defending the CAN bus Part 1: Attacks and intrusion detection

CAN bus is a wildly successful fieldbus protocol that is perfectly designed for vehicle applications (even including spacecraft that have gone to Mars). But that success in handling sensors and...

ASRG webinar on CAN protocol attacks

I recently gave a 45 minute webinar at the ASRG on the topic of CAN protocol attacks, demonstrating five different attacks on the CAN protocol itself. There is also a...

Using a CANPico as a USB CAN bus adapter for Wireshark

Here I will explain how one of our CANPico boards can be made into a USB CAN adapter firmware to display CAN frames on the bus in Wireshark.

The Janus Attack

The Janus Attack is a low-level CAN protocol attack where a single CAN frame contains two different payloads, so that a targeted device sees a different payload to other devices....

New CANPico firmware released

We’ve pushed a new version of the CANPico firmware that updates it to MicroPython v1.16. The update also fixes some bugs but the biggest change is that the firmware adds...