The researchers managed to stop transmission of the vehicle, causing it to slow down …
Two researchers US computer security have released a video that could worry many drivers. In a short film, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek (1) demonstrate how they hacked a Jeep Cherokee (Chrysler) in full motorway reports Le Figaro . Looking at the pictures you can see the reporter Andy Greenberg, the trade magazine Wired . At the wheel, it will be a witness of his vehicle of initiatives.
See video of Wired magazine here
The driver was unable to regain control of his vehicle
While it uses no buttons, the fans are activated at maximum. He continued his conduct but his radio switches on and plays hip-hop at too high a volume. It’s not over since its windscreen washer fluid reservoir is empty and wipers beat time. Impossible to have any visibility. Worse, the transmission of the vehicle is turned off, causing the Jeep to slow. For a long minute, during which he feared getting rammed by a trailer, Andy Greenberg can not do anything.
According to the daily, the researchers actually exploited a vulnerability that affects the system linking the car to the Internet “Uconnect” to take control of the vehicle. Contact Chrysler for nine months, the researchers pushed the manufacturer to make a patch. It must be downloaded and installed on the car through a USB
Hacking. “Almost 100%” of connected cars would be vulnerable
471 000 cars involved in overseas flaw
However, almost 471,100 vehicles, potentially victims of the fault have been identified in the US C ‘ Therefore the duo of experts behind the discovery, has published only part of the code of its device by voluntarily omitting crucial details, to prevent hackers to use. Moreover, the researchers, who are reassuring guarantee that only a seasoned attacker could use this flaw.
(1) Respectively Director of Automotive Safety Research at IOActive and Charlie Miller, responsible for security research at Twitter.
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