Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
A few months back, all the headlines centered on a car hack, but it wasn’t as scary as the sensational headlines made it. In that story, a team of two hackers, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, let Wired reporter Andy Greenberg test drive a Jeep Cherokee. During the test, Miller and Valasek were able to hack into and take over the vehicle’s Uconnect entertainment system to do seemingly harmless things like take over Greenberg’s radio, play with the windshield wipers and blast the air conditioning. But here’s where it gets scary. They could also cut the transmission and stop the accelerator, completely disabling Greenberg’s car on a bridge with no shoulder. The tests were a success for Miller and Valasek, and despite the knee-jerk reaction of thinking that this is really, really bad news, it actually may have prevented that hack from falling into the wrong hands. With information about how the hacks work, Chrysler and other affected companies were able to fix the problem before it got completely out of control, and more importantly, before anyone died. That’s what makes new proposition so troubling: Congress is mulling over potential legislation that would make researching car hacks – like Miller and Valasek did – completely […]
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