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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).
Yeah, because security through obscurity is always the better option!
How about, you know, making sure your "Internet of things" devices are properly secured, and have regular audits of to ensure they aren't compromised?
How about suing the manufacturer of the device as "Dangerous"? Can't we do that?
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
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
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
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.
In a just, sensible world, of course you could.
In our current reality, by buying and activating the thing, you will have of course have "accepted" the EULA which absolves them off all responsibility for absolutely anything, up to and including global warming, shooting your dog, raping your kids and the device being equipped with such hilariously poor security that a blind-drunk Neandertal could crack it with a 1980-era Nokia.