In 2015, I wrote an article (“ Inside the IDS,” June) and I detailed some of the other tests IDS can do besides pulling codes and looking at data PIDs to enhance your analysis of that Ford that is in ...

T ECH E Tackling the Ford IDS, Part 1Scan tools have come a long way in the last few years. Many have moved to PC-based tools, which is a far cry from the proprietary, odd-shaped units we have all ...

It can perform protocol analysis and content searching/matching, and it is used to detect a variety of attacks and probes such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes and OS ...