While they note the threat of GPS spoofing has been discussed as far back as2001, and that spoofing has been shown towork in other contexts, their experiment was the first to test road navigation systems. The researchers used real drivers behind the wheel of a car that was being told to ...
The steering of one vehicle was also compromised, although only while the car was in reverse. According to Wired, which published the story, a number of 2013-2014 models of Dodge Ram, Dodge Viper, and Jeep models are affected, among others. ...
Attackers can also go after the in-car entertainment system, he added, by "introducing false code into MP3 files," for example. By playing the file, a user unknowingly plants malicious input in his in-car entertainment system. That may not seem like a big deal, but many in-car systems ...
Driverless cars promise to be safer than cars driven by humans… but that’s assuming they don’t get hacked by malicious actors. Hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek recently usedWired’sAndy Greenberg as a human guinea pigfor their latest experiment that involved taking over his car while...
While most of these hacking demonstrations were performed within near proximity to the car, the remote brake application was activated by a hacker 12 miles way. This, as you might agree, is incredibly worrying. Thankfully, the Keen Security Lab researchers aren't malicious in their intent. As...
“controlled demonstrations show how frightening it would be to have a hacker take over controls of a car,” markey wrote in a statement to wired. “drivers shouldn’t have to choose between being connected and being protected...we need clear rules of the road that protect cars from hackers...
The researchers were also able to remotely unlock the door of the car, take over control of the dashboard computer screen, open the boot, move the seats and activate the indicators and windscreen wipers, as well as fold in the wing mirrors while the vehicle was in motion. ...
Wiredreportsthat Apple recently patched a nasty Safari bug, which allowed hackers to take over the victim's webcam and microphone and spy on them. The bugs (there were several of them) were found by security researcher Ryan Pickren. He says that, by combining several of the bugs together,...
it is really hard to do,” said Chris Valasek, one of the Jeep hackers and director of vehicle security research at IOActive, a computer security company. “It takes a lot of resources, money, and you have to be an expert. I am not concerned that someone will take over my car.” ...
You know that sinking feeling you get when you realise you’ve left your house or car unlocked? Well, imagine how much worse the situation would be if you knew someone had managed to take advantage of that unfortunate human error, and you can start to understand the gravity of this situati...