After Jeep Hack, Chrysler Recalls 1.4M Vehicles for Bug Fix - Wired
On Friday, Chrysler announced that it’s issuing a formal recall for 1. 4 million vehicles that may be affected by a hackable software vulnerability in Chrysler’s Uconnect dashboard computers. The vulnerability was first demonstrated to WIRED by security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek earlier this month when they wirelessly hacked a Jeep I was driving, taking over dashboard functions, steering, transmission and brakes. Chrysler says it’s also taken steps to block the digital attack Miller and Valasek demonstrated with “network-level security measures”—presumably security tools that detect and block the attack on Sprint’s network, the cellular carrier that... “Blocking the Sprint network is a huge thing,” Miller adds. Assuming that they did [the Sprint network fix] correctly…you don’t have to worry about that tail-end of cars that won’t get fixed. Valasek wrote on Twitter that he’d tested the attack again and found that Sprint’s network does now appear to be blocking the Jeep attack:. Chrysler had already issued a patch in a software update for its vehicles last week , but announced it with a vague press release on its. Source: www.wired.com
