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Car Hacking Gets the Attention of Detroit and Washington

  • 21 July 2015
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by Dennis Fisher    July 21, 2015 , 12:39 pm
 
                                                       



Car hacking is a relatively new phenomenon, but it is evolving at a frighteningly quick pace. While just a year or two ago security researchers were still trying to work out exactly how the internal electronics and communications gear in vehicles works, now a pair of researchers has discovered a method to compromise some Chrysler vehicles remotely and do things such as disable the transmission, and control the steering and brakes.
 
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This is quite a timely article because there have been several articles lately about car hacking.
Here are 2 from today:
Car-hacking expert urges Jeep owners to install security update
Hackers take over remotely a Fiat Chrysler connected car

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the car manufacturers need to stay on top of this issue and counter act the malicious exploits being done.
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By Eduard Kovacs on July 24, 2015 Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) has decided to recall 1.4 million vehicles after security researchers revealed that cars equipped with the Uconnect in-vehicle connectivity system can be remotely hijacked.

Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek demonstrated on a 2014 Jeep Cherokee that a remote attacker could leverage a vulnerability in Uconnect to hack into a car’s systems and perform various actions, from taking over the infotainment system to killing the engine and disabling the brakes. Full Article
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The following article is a update:
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The Summer Of Car Hacks Continues.

By: Ericka Chickowski
 
New research shows how SMS messages manipulating vulns in insurance dongles can kill brakes on cars.
 The summer of car hacks continues this week as another set of researchers demonstrated how it's possible to affect the control of a car's braking system without even engaging with any electronics embedded in the car itself. Apparently, all it really takes is just going after the Internet-connected devices that car insurance companies are increasingly using to track their customers' driving habits.
Introduced this week at the Usenix security conference in Washington, D.C., the new discovery shows that it is possible to control the braking system and other central mechanisms in cars via SMS text messaging. All this is made possible through vulnerabilities in a dongle developed by a French firm to be used by insurance companies seeking to charge insurance on a per-mile basis. Called the OBD2 dongle, the version examined by these researchers from the University of California San Diego was specifically one distributed by San Francisco-based Metromile Insurance.
 
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