Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Two hackers hijacked the controls of a speeding Jeep Cherokee and cut the engine on a St. Louis highway — all from laptops miles away. They later steered the SUV around an empty parking lot, disabling the brakes as the driver pumped the useless pedal and crashed head on into a ditch. The terrifying stunt, conducted with the help of a reporter for Wired, revealed a potentially fatal flaw in the growing number of high-tech rides. Hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek claim nearly a half-million vehicles are vulnerable across the country and the numbers are growing. “This is what everyone who thinks about car security has worried about for years,” Miller told Wired. “This is a reality.” The virtual backseat drivers can slip in through a vehicle’s smartphone-friendly entertainment system and wreak havoc on other computer-controlled operations — basically everything in modern automobiles. Miller and Valasek, both cybersecurity researchers, claim they’ve warned carmakers about the danger for years but no one took them seriously — so they decided to prove it. The two sent Wired reporter Andy Greenberg on the road in a Jeep and launched a cyber attack as he hit speeds of 70 mph on a Missouri […]
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