Hackers Demonstrate How They Can Wirelessly Manipulate Your Vehicle ECU And Leave You Stranded

The tire pressure monitors built into modern cars have been shown to be insecure by researchers from Rutgers University and the University of South Carolina. The wireless sensors, compulsory in new automobiles in the US since 2008, can be used to track vehicles or feed bad data to the electronic control units (ECU), causing them to malfunction.

Earlier in the year, researchers from the University of Washington and University of California San Diego showed that the ECUs could be hacked, giving attackers the ability to be both annoying, by enabling wipers or honking the horn, and dangerous, by disabling the brakes or jamming the accelerator



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Need4Speed - 8/12/2010 4:17:55 PM

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Interesting

quizz - 8/12/2010 8:16:23 PM

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Holy S***!! That IS NOT GOOD. I remember when I was 16, and let me tell you, my cohorts were incredibly destructive when given a modem and a computer terminal. I can only imagine what a bunch of geeky rebels with a mobile transmitter can do along the freeway. UGH.. this must be addressed immediately.

smart + age 16 + internet + boredom = high tech vandalism

KZ258 - 8/14/2010 7:13:02 AM

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hehe gotta love the "nerds gone bad". i can definitely see myself doing this as well after im done completing my major.