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Disgruntled Ex-Employee Remotely Disables 100 Cars
hansamurai writes "Over one hundred cars equipped with a Webtech Plus blackbox were remotely disabled when a former employee of dealership Texas Auto Center got hold of his employer's database of users. Webtech Plus is repossession software that allows the dealership to disable a car's ignition or trigger the horn to honk when a payment is due. Owners had to remove the battery to stop the incessant honking. After the dealership began fielding an unusually high number of calls from upset car owners, they changed the passwords to the Webtech Plus software and then traced the IP address used to access the client to its former employee."
Can someone explain this article to me using a car analogy?
or the Brown Note?
Since I RTFA I know that he used someone else's password.
I would definitely be interested in buying a car that can be triggered to shutdown or start blaring its horn remotely! Is there anyway to buy one with a built-in bomb?
When things get complex, multiply by the complex conjugate.
When are bosses going to learn to stop taking away their gruntles??
Cwm, fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz
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Oh man, trying to read that hurt. Punctuation is our friend.
No sig for you!!
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>No sig for you!!
Uh..it's easy to get carried away, however...
I'd bet at least one of them was playing "La Cucaracha."
Well, duh! Because it's easier to remember. And it's better than having a post-it for each car -- just one post-it with the one password will do!
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
Honk if you're Hacked!
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
You can even stick it on your monitor!
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
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Of course its hacking! how else could someone do that???
Next you're going to say that someone guessing a Facebook password isn't hacking!!!
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OnStar would interpret such a move as an attack.
THL phish sticks
They already are. See the latest OnStar commercials. If they're chasing you and you don't stop, they can either slow your car down, kill it, and/or make it start honking and flashing lights.
Sounds like something that Toyota could use for their cars...
Well, duh! Because it's easier to remember. And it's better than having a post-it for each car -- just one post-it with the one password will do!
One post-it to rule them all!
Hmmm . . . or gen up a copy of some plates of a car of a similar make and model and put them on the car near the AP. Probably a bad idea to drive with fake plates on the highway, but in a residential area, should be fine so long as you don't run stop signs or look out of place. Not that I've thought this through or anything--oh, there's someone at the door :) . . .
One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
oh jeebus.
Come on, man. really?
THL phish sticks
You can even stick it on your monitor!
That's no good. What if it falls off?
Even sticking a post-it under the keyboard won't do. Safest would be writing the password on the beige crt monitor bezel using a jiffy marker.
All joking aside I've seen it done. Not sure what happens if the password changes. Whiteout?
"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
But what happens after the last payment is made?