You’re driving your new car quietly, enjoying it slide down the track, when suddenly he seems to create life. No longer obeys his commands. We are not talking about the Transformers movie franchise. In Hollywood plot cars, helicopters, airplanes turn into scary robots, with high destructive power.
We are talking about the reality experienced by a journalist of a specialized publication in US cars. The test was done by the US magazine Wired that asked two hackers to remotely control an SUV Jeep Cherokee that semitruck by a Saint Louis road, the state of Missouri, USA.
The magazine put the steering wheel the reporter Andy Greenberg. The idea of the report was to show that internet connected cars pose new security challenges to the automotive companies. While semitruck the avenue, Greenberg saw the car, already controlled by hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek through a security hole in board system UConnect , to life.
Remotely boys triggered the air conditioning, you called yourself. After the sound. Then the windshield wipers, and, finally, the throttle, which stopped working. The boys did it from notebooks like the car, were connected to the Internet.
According to Valasek and Miller hackers, some Internet connected cars can be vulnerable. With the Jeep Cherokee in a parking lot, hackers can control showed to the steering wheel. The information security flaw was sent to Chrysler, which owns the Jeep brand, which it must disclose an update for the car system soon.
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