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Also Hackable: Drive-Through Car Washes

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-everything-needs-a-web-interface dept.

PLAR writes It turns out LaserWash automatic car washes can be easily hacked via the Internet to get a free wash or to manipulate the machines that clean the cars, a security researcher has found. Billy Rios says these car washes have web interfaces with weak/default passwords which, if obtained, could allow an attacker to telnet in and use an HTTP GET request to control the machines. Rios adds that this probably isn't the only car wash brand that's vulnerable.

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  1. What's a car wash? by mspohr · · Score: 4, Funny

    Car?
    Wash?

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  2. Breaking Bad car wash by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    What a pity this wasn't discovered sooner... Skyler White could have asked Saul Goodman to hire his Eastern European hacker again to launder Walt's meth money through that car wash using HTTP GET requests.

  3. I hope whoever did this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    comes out clean.

  4. Sudo wax off by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sudo wax on

  5. Re:Marketing dream chasers by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 3, Funny

    My very first car wash was cloud-based. Sometimes I miscalculated and it got snowed on instead.