Hackers remotely take over Jeep on busy highway to prove a point - LancasterOnline
What Fiat Chrysler’s software update post failed to mention is that the hackers who hacked into the Jeep Cherokee worked with the automaker to create the software update. "An automaker’s nightmare" Charlie Miller is a security researcher who spent five years as an analyst for the National Security Agency, according to his Linkedin profile. Through their research, Miller and Valasek created a hacking technique that can target Jeep Cherokees and give a hacker wireless control to any of thousands of vehicles, according to a Wired magazine story posted Tuesday. For his story, Greenberg traveled to St. Louis to be Miller’s and Valasek’s “digital crash-test dummy … on whom they could test the car-hacking research they’d been doing over the past year. Hackers take over Jeep Cherokee Greenberg drove along I-64 in St. Louis in a Jeep Cherokee as Miller and Valasek hacked away from Miller’s home 10 miles away. YouTube via Wired Charlie Miller, left, and Chris Valasek hack into Andy Greenberg's Jeep Cherokee from Miller's home 10 miles. Source: lancasteronline.com
