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Hacking Internet-Connected Trucks and Buses
An anonymous reader writes: Among the things one can find with Shodan, the search engine for the Internet of Things, are trucks, buses and delivery vans that have been equipped with the Telematics Gateway Unit device and a modem to connect to the Internet. What's more, security researcher Jose Carlos Norte says that this setup can be misused by malicious individuals to monitor and control these vehicles -- to discover their position, their speed, and so on, as well as to change some of those parameters, e.g. change the vehicle's route, or put up a geo-fence for it (he says he does not know what such a change would cause).
he says he does not now what such a change would cause
I don't now as well
What do you do? What do you do?
(he says he does not now what such a change would cause).
If he gets caught, and he and the victim are both in the United States, it might "cause" him to be arrested, tried, and convicted. I'm not sure what for, but there's probably some law he's breaking.
When it comes to stuff like this, only hack your own hardware or get permission from the "victim" first. ESPECIALLY if you do not know what the effects will be.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Also putting things on the net isn't always a good thing!
Seems like the premise for the next "Speed" sequel is in the bag.
A small hole not mended in time becomes big hole in no time.
Let's make like a bird... and get the flock outta here.
e.g. change the vehicle's route, or put up a geo-fence for it (he says he does not now what such a change would cause).
the first use of a geo-fence hack will be used to keep the hacker's in-laws at bay. ;)
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Anyone for a self-driving car? Imagine the possibilities with ransomware. This was actually predicted in the movie "Superman II".
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Einstein
Surely laws will protect us from any misuse.
I keep hearing about this, it's old news, why can't I got 3 hours without hearing about Shodan again?? Is this one of the new sponsors or something? Because the rush to get this, spam for lack of a better word, posted has resulted in, like many others, horribly manged posts. Honestly. If it's a paid add, just mark it as such and be honest.
s/Bus 720/Lemon party express!!/
Good people go to bed earlier.
More FUD. The data shown in the article shows only the ignition is controllable buy the TGU, the rest is disconnected. I guess you could fool the unit by saying something is fine when it's not, which could lead to costly repairs. Beyond that, more FUD
death race 2000 is what happens when the GOP get's there way.
That's just how they be.
If you extrapolate the growth in processor speed over time, it's clear that in about 20-30 years AI will be unhackable.
Therefore, we shouldn't even bother trying to defend against hacking now and just focus on AI.
Thank you Dave Raggett
Keep your nigger talk in Detroit, please.
Last time I visited that site it made you register for an account to see anything past the first page of hits. Why should I have to register for his fancy search engine?
Wow the article is so poorly written it's laughable. Plus they did no fact checking at all.
no you CANT do what they claim, and only 30 minutes with google would have pointed this out to the article writer... instead they took the word of a kiddie at face value.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
The last one said it was going to Pen Island
In other news, did you know that you can hack into someone's computer and discover the movements of their mouse, as well as change them? If you write to /dev/mouse it'll move the physical device around on the desk! Well no, I haven't tried it, that would be irresponsible. But the theoretical things that could cause are very scary!
Chelloveck
I give up on debugging. From now on, SIGSEGV is a feature.