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Remote Control of a Car, With No Phone Or Network Connection Required

Posted by samzenpus on from the all-your-car-are-belong-to-us dept.

Albanach writes: Following on from this week's Wired report showing the remote control of a Jeep using a cell phone, security researchers claim to have achieved a similar result using just the car radio. Using off the shelf components to create a fake radio station, the researchers sent signals using the DAB digital radio standard used in Europe and the Asia Pacific region. After taking control of the car's entertainment system it was possible to gain control of vital car systems such as the brakes. In the wild, such an exploit could allow widespread simultaneous deployment of a hack affecting huge numbers of vehicles.

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  1. LOL at the touchscreen in the article... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Car infotainment systems can allow drivers to see vehicle status updates, play music and videos, view maps and in some cases run third-party apps" - and they also allow drivers to NOT SEE OTHER CARS, while they're trying to use a stupid touchscreen in a bloody CAR...

  2. Why?? by Munchr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why exactly is the entertainment system of a vehicle, devoloped by design to display "unknown" content, tied into critical systems? First airplanes and now cars. What the actual fuck are these people thinking?

    1. Re:Why?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Flash has millions (maybe billions) of users and after 15 years, they still find 0-day security holes. There's no "just" about it.