Letting the Air Out of Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems
Mike Metzger - Letting the Air Out of Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems Since 2008 every new car sold in the US requires some type of Tire Pressure Monitoring System be installed.
Summary
Architecture and Background
Mike Metzger - Letting the Air Out of Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems Since 2008 every new car sold in the US requires some type of Tire Pressure Monitoring System be installed.
Vulnerability Analysis
The most popular uses simple unencrypted RF communications to relay the tire pressure information back to the car ECU.
Exploitation and Demonstrations
This talk goes over the basic history, implementation, and most importantly the unforeseen issues with privacy and subversion of TPM systems Mike Metzger is a technology consultant offering network, security, virtualization, and programming services for his company Flexible Creations.
Remediation and Defensive Strategies
He has spent the past 14 years in networking and security working for various companies dealing with firewall, IDS/IPS, DLP, network storage, etc. Lately he has become much more involved with physical computing & fabrication and is a member of the Dallas Makerspace and a founder of the Dallas area Embedded Workshop group. For copies of the slides and additional materials please see the DEF CON 18 Archive here:
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