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Hackers wirelessly control car on highway - from 10 miles away
Posted on 7/21/15 at 2:35 pm
Posted on 7/21/15 at 2:35 pm
Well this is a bit disconcerting.
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I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold.
Though I hadn’t touched the dashboard, the vents in the Jeep Cherokee started blasting cold air at the maximum setting, chilling the sweat on my back through the in-seat climate control system. Next the radio switched to the local hip hop station and began blaring Skee-lo at full volume. I spun the control knob left and hit the power button, to no avail. Then the windshield wipers turned on, and wiper fluid blurred the glass.
As I tried to cope with all this, a picture of the two hackers performing these stunts appeared on the car’s digital display: Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, wearing their trademark track suits. A nice touch, I thought.
The Jeep’s strange behavior wasn’t entirely unexpected. I’d come to St. Louis to be Miller and Valasek’s digital crash-test dummy, a willing subject on whom they could test the car-hacking research they’d been doing over the past year. The result of their work was a hacking technique—what the security industry calls a zero-day exploit—that can target Jeep Cherokees and give the attacker wireless control, via the Internet, to any of thousands of vehicles. Their code is an automaker’s nightmare: software that lets hackers send commands through the Jeep’s entertainment system to its dashboard functions, steering, brakes, and transmission, all from a laptop that may be across the country.
As the two hackers remotely toyed with the air-conditioning, radio, and windshield wipers, I mentally congratulated myself on my courage under pressure. That’s when they cut the transmission.
Immediately my accelerator stopped working. As I frantically pressed the pedal and watched the RPMs climb, the Jeep lost half its speed, then slowed to a crawl. This occurred just as I reached a long overpass, with no shoulder to offer an escape. The experiment had ceased to be fun.
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I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold.
Though I hadn’t touched the dashboard, the vents in the Jeep Cherokee started blasting cold air at the maximum setting, chilling the sweat on my back through the in-seat climate control system. Next the radio switched to the local hip hop station and began blaring Skee-lo at full volume. I spun the control knob left and hit the power button, to no avail. Then the windshield wipers turned on, and wiper fluid blurred the glass.
As I tried to cope with all this, a picture of the two hackers performing these stunts appeared on the car’s digital display: Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, wearing their trademark track suits. A nice touch, I thought.
The Jeep’s strange behavior wasn’t entirely unexpected. I’d come to St. Louis to be Miller and Valasek’s digital crash-test dummy, a willing subject on whom they could test the car-hacking research they’d been doing over the past year. The result of their work was a hacking technique—what the security industry calls a zero-day exploit—that can target Jeep Cherokees and give the attacker wireless control, via the Internet, to any of thousands of vehicles. Their code is an automaker’s nightmare: software that lets hackers send commands through the Jeep’s entertainment system to its dashboard functions, steering, brakes, and transmission, all from a laptop that may be across the country.
As the two hackers remotely toyed with the air-conditioning, radio, and windshield wipers, I mentally congratulated myself on my courage under pressure. That’s when they cut the transmission.
Immediately my accelerator stopped working. As I frantically pressed the pedal and watched the RPMs climb, the Jeep lost half its speed, then slowed to a crawl. This occurred just as I reached a long overpass, with no shoulder to offer an escape. The experiment had ceased to be fun.
Posted on 7/21/15 at 2:37 pm to jbgleason
Should be great for Jeep sales.
Posted on 7/21/15 at 2:39 pm to jbgleason
quote:
The experiment had ceased to be fun.
Dumbass.
Posted on 7/21/15 at 2:42 pm to jbgleason
quote:Gee, who could have seen this coming.
Hackers wirelessly control car on highway - from 10 miles away
Posted on 7/21/15 at 2:44 pm to jbgleason
My '86 Corolla should be immune, right?
Posted on 7/21/15 at 2:47 pm to jbgleason
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and began blaring Skee-lo at full volume.
Scariest part of the entire story.
Posted on 7/21/15 at 2:49 pm to jbgleason
Needle in a hay stack.
Also, I'm not worried about american hackers; I'm worried about Mooslim hackers yelling "Praise Allah" while hacking me.
Also, I'm not worried about american hackers; I'm worried about Mooslim hackers yelling "Praise Allah" while hacking me.
Posted on 7/21/15 at 2:50 pm to jbgleason
quote:I'm not tech savvy but the fact he volunteered leads me to believe they had access to something they would not have with a random vehicle.
I’d come to St. Louis to be Miller and Valasek’s digital crash-test dummy, a willing subject on whom they could test the car-hacking research they’d been doing over the past year.
Posted on 7/21/15 at 2:51 pm to jbgleason
quote:so, they did this on I-10 in Baton Rouge?
This occurred just as I reached a long overpass, with no shoulder to offer an escape.
Posted on 7/21/15 at 3:01 pm to jbgleason
Glad I drive a stick. I'll be impressed when they can pop the clutch and throw it in gear.
Posted on 7/21/15 at 3:08 pm to dante
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I'm not tech savvy but the fact he volunteered leads me to believe they had access to something they would not have with a random vehicle.
The article says that if they know the vehicle's IP address on the network, they can control it, implying that "make dante's car, in particular, take a hard left right now" might be relatively difficult. The article also implies that they can scan the networks and randomly pick up vehicles, making it sound like "make random cars on the network take a hard left right now" is more likely. The author mentions seeing the two hackers scan IPs and pull information on three cars scattered across the country.
Things like this are the only thing that scares me about self-driving cars. I'd trust the computer to drive me, but wouldn't trust the hackers to leave the computer alone.
This post was edited on 7/21/15 at 3:11 pm
Posted on 7/21/15 at 3:12 pm to TigerstuckinMS
So jeeps now have a cell signal built into the car now? Why? Is that so they download updates or something?
Posted on 7/21/15 at 3:31 pm to TigerstuckinMS
quote:Ok thanks.....I didn't read the article just what was posted in the OP.....like I also said.......I'm not tech savvy.
The article says that if they know the vehicle's IP address on the network, they can control it, implying that "make dante's car, in particular, take a hard left right now" might be relatively difficult. The article also implies that they can scan the networks and randomly pick up vehicles,
Posted on 7/21/15 at 3:48 pm to jbgleason
Obd1 with no abs or airbags for the win.
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