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Hackers reveal nasty new car attacks--(video)

Ron CzapalaRon Czapala Posts: 2,418
edited 2013-07-26 13:02 in General Discussion
http://autos.yahoo.com/news/hackers-reveal-nasty-new-car-attacks--with-me-behind-the-wheel--video--010808189.html
Stomping on the brakes of a 3,500-pound Ford Escape that refuses to stop–or even slow down–produces a unique feeling of anxiety. In this case it also produces a deep groaning sound, like an angry water buffalo bellowing somewhere under the SUV’s chassis. The more I pound the pedal, the louder the groan gets–along with the delighted cackling of the two hackers sitting behind me in the backseat.

“Okay, now your brakes work again,” Miller says, tapping on a beat-up MacBook connected by a cable to an inconspicuous data port near the parking brake. I reverse out of the weeds and warily bring the car to a stop. “When you lose faith that a car will do what you tell it to do,” he adds after we jump out of the SUV, “it really changes your whole view of how the thing works.”
This fact, that a car is not a simple machine of glass and steel but a hackable network of computers, is what Miller and Valasek have spent the last year trying to demonstrate. Miller, a 40-year-old security engineer at Twitter, and Valasek, the 31-year-old director of security intelligence at the Seattle consultancy IOActive, received an $80,000-plus grant last fall from the mad-scientist research arm of the Pentagon known as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to root out security vulnerabilities in automobiles.

Comments

  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2013-07-25 17:09
    My '67 Corvair remains invulnerable to these digital attacks.

    Less so the relentless ravaging of father time...
  • xanaduxanadu Posts: 3,347
    edited 2013-07-25 17:35
    Hold on while I plug my laptop into your OBD port lol.
  • Cluso99Cluso99 Posts: 18,069
    edited 2013-07-25 19:14
    No ODB port on my 1988 Toyota Supra either ;)
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2013-07-25 20:29
    Careful Cluso... even if the Supra's safe, your sailboat may be vulnerable to attack! This Brit's GPS-guided model sailboat fell prey to nasty attacks!

    http://www.gpss.force9.co.uk/autop.htm
  • CuriousOneCuriousOne Posts: 931
    edited 2013-07-25 21:13
    The tiny, bluetooth/rf interface can be hiddenly connected to your OBD port and then managed remotely...
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2013-07-25 21:16
    xanadu wrote: »
    Hold on while I plug my laptop into your OBD port lol.

    Don't laugh. Armed with my fancy new steam-powered Ercoguster, I can linkfully harpoon an OBD from a mile a way.

    steampunk_pirate_by_frederik82-d5aq5wd.jpg
  • xanaduxanadu Posts: 3,347
    edited 2013-07-25 23:27
    erco wrote: »
    Careful Cluso... even if the Supra's safe, your sailboat may be vulnerable to attack! This Brit's GPS-guided model sailboat fell prey to nasty attacks!

    http://www.gpss.force9.co.uk/autop.htm


    Noooooooooo. I sail to get away from all this nonsense!
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2013-07-26 09:01
    ok let me get this right, the hackers are in the same car and they mess with the brakes!! Is the word hacker synonymous with "Stupid"?
  • teganburnsteganburns Posts: 134
    edited 2013-07-26 13:02
    I read an article maybe a year and a half ago where a group of college students were able to find a loophole in a car's on board Bluetooth module and completely take control of the car, including tire pressure. :P

    Also no one ever renumbers the physical emergency break. (especially in movies haha)
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