Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
RICHO HEALEY WAS riding his electric skateboard toward an intersection in Melbourne, Australia, last year when suddenly the board cold-stopped beneath him and tossed him to the street. He couldn’t control the board and couldn’t figure out what was wrong. There was no obvious mechanical defect, so being a computer security engineer, his mind naturally flew to other scenarios: could he have been hacked? It didn’t take long to determine that Bluetooth noise in the neighborhood was the likely culprit. The intersection, near Federation Square, was notorious for being saturated with radio frequency noise. Healey was controlling his board with a handheld remote that sent drive commands to the board via Bluetooth. It was clear he hadn’t been hacked; instead, he concluded, a flood of Bluetooth traffic from devices around him had interfered with his remote’s connection to the board. The incident served as inspiration. “I got to thinking, what is it about this environment and can I replicate it?” he told WIRED. Healey, who works on security for payments companyStripe, teamed up with fellow researcher Mike Ryan, who works on security for E-Bay, to examine his and other electric skateboards to see if they could be hacked. The result […]
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