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Hundreds of thousands of engine immobilizers remotely hackable

  • 11 December 2015
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December 11, 2015  By Pierluigi Paganini
 

A New Zealander expert has found hundred of thousands of vulnerable engine immobilizers are remotely hackable due to a flaw.

 
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The New Zealander Lachlan Temple (@skooooch) has discovered hundred of thousands of vulnerable engine immobilizers are remotely hackable. The expert discovered a flaw in a popular cheap car tracking and immobilizer gadget that can allow remote attackers to locate, eavesdrop, and in some cases interrupting the fuel supply to the engine to hundreds of thousands of vehicles, and more alarming, even while they are in motion.
 
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This is quite alarming!! and quite dangerous to say the least. The manufacturer needs to step up on this issue to prevent this type of attack

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