Hackers Cut a Corvette's Brakes Via a Common Car Gadget - Wired
Car hacking demos like last month’s over-the-internet hijacking of a Jeep have shown it’s possible for digital attackers to cross the gap between a car’s cellular-connected infotainment system and its steering and brakes. At the Usenix security conference today, a group of researchers from the University of California at San Diego plan to reveal a technique they could have used to wirelessly hack into any of thousands of vehicles through a tiny commercial device: A... By sending carefully crafted SMS messages to one of those cheap dongles connected to the dashboard of a Corvette, the researchers were able to transmit commands to the car’s CAN bus—the internal network that controls its physical driving... The result, he says, is that the dongles “provide multiple ways to remotely…control just about anything on the vehicle they were connected to. ”. In the video below, the researchers demonstrate their proof-of-concept attacks on a 2013 Corvette,... Source: www.wired.com
