Police admit they're 'stumped' by mystery car thefts
Police admit they're 'stumped' by mystery car thefts
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MelonMan

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38 posts

244 months

Sunday 9th June 2013
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An electronic skeleton key to open cars?

http://www.today.com/news/police-admit-theyre-stum...

Sorry if this has already been posted, I searched and couldn't find it.


Mini tesla coil?
http://hackaday.com/2013/06/09/ask-hackaday-can-yo...

Edited by MelonMan on Sunday 9th June 20:08

xRIEx

8,180 posts

174 months

Sunday 9th June 2013
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I created a topic about this video last year - from 4:40 it talks about just how much of your car can be hacked. Not a single person was interested*. The BMW issue was just the tip of the iceberg.




 *But like Murphys, I'm not bitter hehe

Defcon5

6,462 posts

217 months

Sunday 9th June 2013
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That Police Forces intel unit must be really really crap

dublove

147 posts

205 months

Sunday 9th June 2013
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Ya don't think possibly theres someone on the inside at the dealerships - customer comes in lost one set of keys/remote fob and magically some dodgy geezer in the dealership makes a third key/fob for the gang when he makes the customers replacement..? Geezer then tells gang the home address lol.



texasjohn

3,687 posts

257 months

Sunday 9th June 2013
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xRIEx said:
I created a topic about this video last year - from 4:40 it talks about just how much of your car can be hacked. Not a single person was interested*. The BMW issue was just the tip of the iceberg.




 *But like Murphys, I'm not bitter hehe
Interesting and quite scarey video!

TheEnd

15,370 posts

214 months

Sunday 9th June 2013
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xRIEx said:
I created a topic about this video last year - from 4:40 it talks about just how much of your car can be hacked. Not a single person was interested*. The BMW issue was just the tip of the iceberg.
The 1337 hacker there was doing stuff once access was gained to the car, and devices added into the system.
He's getting his knickers in a twist over the same things that have been possible for the last 30 years or more.
Stuff like that has always been possible, you'd don't even need to know much about electronics to do that.


k-ink

9,070 posts

205 months

Sunday 9th June 2013
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Buy a classic car. Have proper keys. Job done.

Upatdawn

2,202 posts

174 months

Sunday 9th June 2013
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Not sure if im upto date with tracking but ive watched the TV cop interceptor/road wars shows and when an expensive car is nicked and it has a tracker the cops have to stop. fit a triangulation antenna to the roof which guides them (hopefully) to the car - if they are close enough to pick up a signal transmitted by the stolen car

does anyone offer a proper satellite gps tracking service for cars like haulage fleets use?


grumbledoak

32,466 posts

259 months

Sunday 9th June 2013
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k-ink said:
Buy a classic car. Have proper keys.
rofl

Open with a toothbrush, more like!

k-ink

9,070 posts

205 months

Sunday 9th June 2013
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Easy to open perhaps. Maybe not so easy to drive off if it is disabled. You can modify old cars easier than new ones whith their millions of electric gadgets etc.

xRIEx

8,180 posts

174 months

Sunday 9th June 2013
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TheEnd said:
xRIEx said:
I created a topic about this video last year - from 4:40 it talks about just how much of your car can be hacked. Not a single person was interested*. The BMW issue was just the tip of the iceberg.
The 1337 hacker there was doing stuff once access was gained to the car, and devices added into the system.
He's getting his knickers in a twist over the same things that have been possible for the last 30 years or more.
Stuff like that has always been possible, you'd don't even need to know much about electronics to do that.
By Wifi and Bluetooth, from a following car? Correct me if I'm wrong, but Wifi and Bluetooth weren't around in the 80s.

TheEnd

15,370 posts

214 months

Sunday 9th June 2013
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Considering you have to install an extra internal CAN device which will intercept and change the signals, it's no different to installing any electrical devices.

It's like saying the Kremlin can spy on any UK household and record movements, speech, even read emails, but they need to break in first and install some bugs.

CAN is a data network, where info is passed about like posting messages on a thread called "what my car is doing, lol"

The Engine ECU will post up the engine speeds and throttle positions, the ABS/Stability will post road speed, the autogearbox will read those and deiced what to do and post the current gear which is read by the instrument cluster, the wipers and radio will be reading the road speed and adjusting volume etc...


Whilst you can be clever and install a CAN device that will do things like intercept the data and post false data, there's been an old mechanical way of doing it for years.

Take the car showing 20mph less than reality, you could buy speedo recalibraters year ago which were for scaling the km/h reading on Jap imports down to MPH levels, all it needs to do is take the input frequency from the speedo pulse, and and output a frequency about 40% lower.

Install one of them on a relay and you've got the same thing.


xRIEx

8,180 posts

174 months

Sunday 9th June 2013
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TheEnd said:
Considering you have to install an extra internal CAN device which will intercept and change the signals, it's no different to installing any electrical devices.
From what I understood, an attacker doesn't have to install any extra devices - at 5:40 he says the researchers had two areas they could attack: wired & short-range wireless, and lon-range wireless; two separate areas, not that they could only attack wirelessly after attacking the wired.

7:06 - threat model of contacting in real time over a wireless network such as mobile phone signal never having got physical access to the car.

Little Lofty

3,857 posts

177 months

Sunday 9th June 2013
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grumbledoak said:
rofl

Open with a toothbrush, more like!
That's just reminded me of when I used to open my mates dads Maxi with my front door key, it used to really piss him off laugh

TheEnd

15,370 posts

214 months

Sunday 9th June 2013
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He manages to completely miss out any info on the complete "never touched" idea, and only mentions some highlights of the method with previous access.




Mound Dawg

1,925 posts

200 months

Sunday 9th June 2013
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Years ago when I worked in insurance I asked a customer if his car had any anti theft devices fitted. His reply-

Yeah mate, Skoda badges.

Job done then!

sc4589

1,960 posts

191 months

Sunday 9th June 2013
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dublove said:
Ya don't think possibly theres someone on the inside at the dealerships - customer comes in lost one set of keys/remote fob and magically some dodgy geezer in the dealership makes a third key/fob for the gang when he makes the customers replacement..? Geezer then tells gang the home address lol.
Someone's been watching Gone In 60 Seconds a bit too much! hehe

User33678888

1,147 posts

163 months

Sunday 9th June 2013
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Upatdawn said:
Not sure if im upto date with tracking but ive watched the TV cop interceptor/road wars shows and when an expensive car is nicked and it has a tracker the cops have to stop. fit a triangulation antenna to the roof which guides them (hopefully) to the car - if they are close enough to pick up a signal transmitted by the stolen car

does anyone offer a proper satellite gps tracking service for cars like haulage fleets use?

There is the capability out there. For the 2012 Olympics a US broadcaster required about 300 vehicles. They tracked about a third of them, which was enough to act as a disincentive for the drivers of the other 200 who didn't know if they were being tracked or not. Despite this, someone attempted to V Max a 320d.

xRIEx

8,180 posts

174 months

Sunday 9th June 2013
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TheEnd said:
He manages to completely miss out any info on the complete "never touched" idea, and only mentions some highlights of the method with previous access.
8:14, the slide states they managed to compromise various control computers over the mobile phone network, and at 8:24 he states they could do this on available-to-buy cars over the radio network.

TheEnd

15,370 posts

214 months

Sunday 9th June 2013
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I guess you're just watching the video you want to see.