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Originally Posted by botsapper
Hackers using your vehicle's IP address can take over your infotainment center and actively control your windshield wipers, AC to max, change your classical station to a hip-hop station and even mysteriously take over your accelerator pedal! A couple of hackers are proving that the present offerings of a 'connected' vehicle are very vulnerable to nefarious 'take-over' scenarios. Through cellular connection, they could reprogram the car and send commands to change dashboard info, control steering, brakes and transmission while you may be using the vehicle on the highway. The hack was however benevolent because they are revealing their attack procedures and reveal vulnerabilities at the Black Hat security conference later this year. Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway |
Good thing old cars are impervious to "hacking" like cut brake lines and sugar in the gas tank.