Virginia State Police Cars Hacked

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @10:21AM from the breaking-in dept.

ancientribe writes: Two models of Virginia State Police cruisers were hacked in an experiment to expose vulnerabilities in the vehicles and to come up with ways to protect the cars from hackers. Mitre Corp., the Virginia Dept. of Motor Vehicles, the University of Virginia, and other organizations in cooperation with DHS and the DOT demonstrated the attacks on an unmarked 2012 Chevrolet Impala and a marked patrol car, a 2013 Ford Taurus. GM and Ford even provided their comments to the press in the wake of the experiment.

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Clickbait by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-30 10:26 · Score: 5, Informative

The title should also contain "In An Experiment".
There you go. I've saved you the trouble of even reading the summary.
Re:Literally nothing new by ArylAkamov · 2015-09-30 11:22 · Score: 4, Informative

Pretty much. I'm betting they just plugged into the CAN bus.
About as newsworthy as "ARDUINO HACKED BY USING ISCP PINS AND AVR PROGRAMMER"