Hacking Internet-Connected Trucks and Buses

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 9, 2016 @05:14AM from the kitt-would-be-most-displeased dept.

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).

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Complete FUD and made up claims by Lumpy · 2016-03-09 07:22 · Score: 3, Informative

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.

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