Hackers have found a way to steal cars among fans of burgers

in hackers •  8 years ago 

Research company PROMON clearly demonstrated how to hijack almost any modern car

The idea is as follows. Hackers have created an open network, handing out free Wi-Fi, and all who were connected, to receive promotional e-mail: "download to your smart phone, our app - Take a free burger in a nearby fast food restaurant."
However, under the application of hidden malware. For example, Tesla vehicles such "bug" allows attackers to login and password by which to lead the car becomes just a matter of technique.
As noted Autoevolution, this vulnerability - not a problem of "Tesla", according to this scheme hackers can connect to many modern cars. Hence the advice: do not use the free network and not to unknown applications.

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Years ago Vice / Motherboard had put videos online about these same things. Two years ago this was posted

1 year ago Wired also posted this video

I think it is safe to say it is not fully safe to have this tech out fully. Sadly not because of the tech, but because of the human factor.

New Year, new video. Not to forget

The fact that the man-made, they can and destruction

To be fair, mother nature made man and she can and destroys like no other on fairly large scales. I believe in Elon Musk as a good thinker and so with his push on these driverless cars, I am curious if he has secretly figured a better solution than what is out. It will be amusing if in the end it is some weird blockchain technology that gets the cars running orderly without hacking abuse.