Jeep Cherokee Hacked, Carjacked In Real-World Test: Are You Next? - The Car Connection
Thankfully, the mischief was carried out by two good guys, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek -- the same duo that hacked a Toyota Prius two years ago . In the case of the Prius, though, Miller and Valasek had to dismantle large portions of the... That made the real-world implications of the hacking less daunting: if the missing sections of dashboard didn't tip-off a driver that something was up, she'd probably notice the two guys in the backseat, their grins illuminated by the glow of a... As a result, the Prius incident didn't raise alarms in the auto industry the way that Miller and Valasek had hoped. They called up the same driver/writer/guinea pig who drove the Prius, Andy Greenberg, and invited him to Miller's hometown of St. Louis. Then, Miller and Valasek sat down in Miller's living room, and using some off-the-shelf hardware and some custom software, they began to scare the crap out of Mr. Greenberg. The entire article is well worth a read -- especially if you own a vehicle from 2013, 2014, or 2015 that's equipped with Chrysler's Uconnect. Miller and Valasek chose the Jeep Cherokee after surveying technical manuals and wiring diagrams for a range of vehicles. They determined that Chrysler's Uconnect infotainment system was the most vulnerable of all such systems , and among vehicles with Uconnect, the Cherokee was the easiest target. Source: www.thecarconnection.com
