New Detroit Nightmare demonstrated
Detroit = our auto industry in this case. Talk about car-hacking has been bubbling in the background for a while now but a recent article in WIRED definitely announces its arrival. White hat hackers have exploited Chrysler's wifi entertainment systems to shut down a Jeep in a test.
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All of this is possible only because Chrysler, like practically all carmakers, is doing its best to turn the modern automobile into a smartphone. Uconnect, an Internet-connected computer feature in hundreds of thousands of Fiat Chrysler cars, SUVs, and trucks, controls the vehicle’s entertainment and navigation, enables phone calls, and even offers a Wi-Fi hot spot. And thanks to one vulnerable element, which Miller and Valasek won’t identify until their Black Hat talk, Uconnect’s cellular connection also lets anyone who knows the car’s IP address gain access from anywhere in the country. “From an attacker’s perspective, it’s a super nice vulnerability,” Miller says.
http://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers...-jeep-highway/
As the article continues the hackers are working with Chrysler which has allowed them to issue a patch before the two release their research at Black Hat. However this has to portend a huge buzzkill for selling onboard wifi systems. It also is making me wonder about my GM Onstar connection that allows remote, starting, locking/unlocking via smartphone app.
