Last year, two researchers set car owners and legislators into a panic when they demonstrated how to cut the engine of a Jeep on the highway from the comfort of an apartment. This year, they are demonstrating a new attack that allows them to slam on someone else’s breaks or spin their steering wheel. Charlie […]
Hackers have demonstrated an exploit that can take remote control of a Jeep, to the extent of cutting the transmission and controlling the throttle. The two hackers, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, demoed the exploit – the result of a year’s work – to a Wired journalist, who wrote: “The result of their work was […]
A few years ago, the notion of hacking a car or truck over the Internet to control steering and brakes seemed like a bad plot point from CSI: Cyber. Today, the security research community has proven it to be a real possibility, and it’s one that at least two U.S. senators won’t wait to see […]
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