Yes, you can now add cars to the ever increasing list of things that can be hacked. Greenberg is a senior writer for Wired and he had asked two security researchers – Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek – to show him how vulnerable cars are to remote hacking. So, they did just that. The tricks were at first small: The hackers sent a picture to his dashboard's digital display. Soon after, they cut his brakes. No wonder the experiment had quickly “ceased to be fun” for Greenberg. The car eventually ended up in a ditch.
The hacking technique is described as “a zero-day exploit.” Security experts were able to target the Jeep Cherokee that Greenberg was driving and get wireless control of the vehicle – all from the comfort of their own home. Miller and Valasek were able to hack the car through its Uconnect infotainment system and run their own code. And herein lies the problem with Internet-connected entertainment systems like Uconnect, which are installed on dashboards to improve usability and entertainment.
Experiments like these raise security questions on the newer generation of cars that are increasingly connected to the Internet. Even the hackers were surprised by their own ability to remotely control these cars.
“When I saw we could do it anywhere, over the Internet, I freaked out,” Valasek told Wired.
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