Hacking electric skateboards: vehicle research for mortals

Presented at ToorCon San Diego 17 (2015), Oct. 24, 2015, 5 p.m. (50 minutes)

In the last year there’s been an explosion of electric skateboards onto the market- seemingly volleyed into popularity by the Boosted Boards kickstarter. Following on from the success of their original Boosted Board exploit, the team went on to get their hands on the other popular boards on the market, and predictably broke all of them. Richo and Mike will investigate the security of several popular skateboards, including Boosted’s flagship model and demonstrate several vulnerabilities that allow complete control of a an unmodified victim’s skateboard, as well as other attacks on the firmware of the board and controller directly.


Presenters:

  • Mike Ryan
    Mike smokes fools like you on the b-ball court, and the b stands for Bluetooth.
  • Richo Healey
    richo likes his ducks flat and his instruction sets reduced. He breaks computers for money, sometimes even on purpose.

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