Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway

Yes they can. All they gotta do is break into your car and put an OBDII dongle on your port (you know the little plug under your dash next to the hood release?) From there they have control of your locks, your throttle (via cruise control), your ABS if you have it, your air bags, your ignition and your gauges. There's about a hundred ways to fuck you from there. Unless your car is pre-OBD, you're vulnerable.

Exactly what freaked me out, its just an easy way to off people in an untraceable and convenient manner.

The simplest being to lock your doors, set the cruise to 120mph then use the ABS to activate one brake to steer your car off a bridge or into a tree. Then the dongle starts a fire to destroy all the evidence.

You're in no way safe - even in a 90's car.

I was just waking up viewing my first GLP thread of the day, along with my first cup of morning coffee :S38:.


When I first watched the video I went from ---->:S38: then all of a sudden I really woke up... :S32: :S42:


I had to re-watch that (00:22 - 00:31) 2 more times to confirm I heard that right!

I was just waking up viewing my first GLP thread of the day, along with my first cup of morning coffee :S38:.


When I first watched the video I went from ---->:S38: then all of a sudden I really woke up... :S32: :S42:


I had to re-watch that (00:22 - 00:31) 2 more times to confirm I heard that right!

471000 vehicles are hackable in the USA. Yours one of them?

Amazing & interesting read (incl. video) !!

snippet: I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold.

Though I hadn’t touched the dashboard, the vents in the Jeep Cherokee started blasting cold air at the maximum setting, chilling the sweat on my back through the in-seat climate control system. Next the radio switched to the local hip hop station and began blaring Skee-lo at full volume. I spun the control knob left and hit the power button, to no avail. Then the windshield wipers turned on, and wiper fluid blurred the glass.

As I tried to cope with all this, a picture of the two hackers performing these stunts appeared on the car’s digital display: Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, wearing their trademark track suits. A nice touch, I thought.


50% rule observed. Full article here: [link to www.wired.com]

These guys aren't hacking anything!

They are hard-wired into the ECUs and controlling them with a laptop!

Big difference!!

I DONT OWN ANY OF THAT SHIT

Wrong.

They used the vehicles wifi detect capabilities and they've used GPS and other remote services like OnStar to hack into a vehicle and take control.

Even the Arduino has a CAN Bus to hack your car.

MICHAEL HASTINGS and others...

Princess Di...explains a lot.

As a mechanic and engineer, the newest vehicle I'll own is a 2002. It has CAN bus for my own convenience, but does not have an IP address or wireless access. It also does not have hackable steering, no matter WHAT.

It would be very obvious if somebody hacked into the network with a dongle or harness.

Beware, people, the more you allow technology to run your life for the sake of "convenience," the less power you will have, until SKYNET takes over.

It's coming because you asked for it.

As a mechanic and engineer, the newest vehicle I'll own is a 2002. It has CAN bus for my own convenience, but does not have an IP address or wireless access. It also does not have hackable steering, no matter WHAT.

It would be very obvious if somebody hacked into the network with a dongle or harness.

Beware, people, the more you allow technology to run your life for the sake of "convenience," the less power you will have, until SKYNET takes over.

It's coming because you asked for it.

Lets see them hack a 1985 Oldsmobile delta 88!

Credit to OP for posting that video in his second post

From Video..(00:22 - 00:31)

>>"I think these guys can make it work b/c they have alot of Money from DARPA-the Defense Dept"<<


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I DONT OWN ANY OF THAT SHIT