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From the Associated Press
Automakers trying to prevent hackers from commandeering cars
DETROIT (AP) -- When researchers at two West Coast universities took control of a General Motors car through cellular and Bluetooth connections in 2010, they startled the auto industry by exposing a glaring security gap.
Five years later, two friendly hackers sitting on a living room couch used a laptop computer to commandeer a Jeep from afar over the Internet, demonstrating an even scarier vulnerability.
"Cars don't seem to be any more secure than when the university guys did it," says Charlie Miller, a security expert at Twitter who, along with well-known hacker and security consultant Chris Valasek, engineered the attack on the Jeep Cherokee.
Fiat Chrysler, the maker of Jeeps, is now conducting the first recall to patch a cybersecurity problem, covering 1.4 million Jeeps. And experts and lawmakers are warning the auto industry and regulators to move faster to plug holes created by the dozens of new computers and the growing number of Internet connections in today's automobiles.
EDITORIAL COMMENT:- This is a dastardly attack on the very second basis of American society. Next they are going to start hacking our guns.
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_AUTOS_HACKING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-08-05-13-04-25
Automakers trying to prevent hackers from commandeering cars
DETROIT (AP) -- When researchers at two West Coast universities took control of a General Motors car through cellular and Bluetooth connections in 2010, they startled the auto industry by exposing a glaring security gap.
Five years later, two friendly hackers sitting on a living room couch used a laptop computer to commandeer a Jeep from afar over the Internet, demonstrating an even scarier vulnerability.
"Cars don't seem to be any more secure than when the university guys did it," says Charlie Miller, a security expert at Twitter who, along with well-known hacker and security consultant Chris Valasek, engineered the attack on the Jeep Cherokee.
Fiat Chrysler, the maker of Jeeps, is now conducting the first recall to patch a cybersecurity problem, covering 1.4 million Jeeps. And experts and lawmakers are warning the auto industry and regulators to move faster to plug holes created by the dozens of new computers and the growing number of Internet connections in today's automobiles.
EDITORIAL COMMENT:- This is a dastardly attack on the very second basis of American society. Next they are going to start hacking our guns.
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_AUTOS_HACKING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-08-05-13-04-25
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Criminals are the biggest threat to cars followed closely by hackers in training who want to make a name for themselves COL Ted Mc.
Video gamers will probably we interested in expanding their gaming skills from whatever Grand Theft Auto and similar games have advanced to actually commandeering passing autos starting with attempts to interfere with police operations :-)
Terrorists would be most interested in targeting specific vehicular systems such as world leaders, military soft targets which would provide the biggest casualty bang per buck, etc.
SGT Randal Groover, LTC Stephen C., SGT Forrest Stewart, SPC (Join to see), PO3 Steven Sherrill
Video gamers will probably we interested in expanding their gaming skills from whatever Grand Theft Auto and similar games have advanced to actually commandeering passing autos starting with attempts to interfere with police operations :-)
Terrorists would be most interested in targeting specific vehicular systems such as world leaders, military soft targets which would provide the biggest casualty bang per buck, etc.
SGT Randal Groover, LTC Stephen C., SGT Forrest Stewart, SPC (Join to see), PO3 Steven Sherrill
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COL Ted Mc
LTC Stephen F. - Colonel; Don't forget the infantile idiots who will do it "just for fun".
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It has been shown that your car can be hacked into. If you have ONSTAR or wnything like this you are vulnerable.
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Next thing you will see is the high tech auto thief simply picking a car on the lot, hacking it, and driving it straight to the chop shop from the comfort of their living room. Nobody will every catch them because if the Police catch them they can simply drive the car into a body of water. The thief's person never being in danger, why would they care?
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