Security experts detail Jeep hacking at Black Hat conference - Las Vegas Review-Journal
With both Wi-Fi and cellular access vulnerabilities in the 2014 Jeep Cherokee's internal computer system, hacking the car and changing everything from its radio volume to speed could be done in a matter of seconds, speakers at this week's Black... "Please just stop saying whatever you have and whatever thing you make is unhackable, because you're going to look silly," said Chris Valasek, director of Vehicle Security Research at IOActive, who spent the last year working with Twitter security... On Wednesday, for the first time in the expo's 18-year history, the show featured a car hacking tutorial, with Valasek and Miller demonstrating to more than 1000 attendees how they shut down a Jeep's brakes in a viral video posted last month on... Valasek and Miller said their goal with the experiment was to help car companies identify the problems and become more secure. "Car companies say they're getting more secure and working harder," Valasek said. Within the Chrysler company alone, the duo discovered nearly two dozen vulnerable models from 2013 to 2015, including the Jeep Cherokee and other popular models like the Dodge Viper, Ram trucks and the Chrysler 300. The fault for the digital... Source: www.reviewjournal.com
