Engine swaps are becoming more complex than ever before, breeding a new era of digital hot rodding. Here's How CAN-Bus Changes Everything.

The widespread adoption of the CAN bus (and OBD-II) in automobiles was largely a way of standardizing the maintenance of increasingly complicated engines and their needs to meet modern emissions ...

The CAN bus has become a defacto standard in modern cars. Just about everything electronic in a car these days talks over this bus, which makes it fertile ground for aspiring hackers. [Daniel ...

The Controller Area Network (CAN), one of the main communications networks in an automobile, is headed for a security overhaul — if not a wholesale replacement. Initially devised in the 1980s to allow ...

We dive deep into what your truck’s CAN bus is and how it functions.

The method involves accessing a car’s Controller Area Network (CAN) bus, a system that allows multiple devices within a vehicle build to communicate with each other in real time.

Effectively, the thieves break into the car's communications in the CAN bus and insert fake messages spoofing the smart key receiver on the same network as the headlights, diagrammed above.