Re: [93attendees] Timely article in Wired - Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It

[Alexandre PETRESCU <[e-mail]>]

And I hear today Fiat called back 1million(!) such vehicles following 
that risk.

Imagine the costs.  NExt time think it better...

Alex

Le 21/07/2015 16:17, Dan York a écrit :
> Given the topic of this morning's technical plenary, I thought it was 
> an interesting bit of synchronicity that this article appeared on 
> Wired today:
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> Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It
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> http://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/
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> ... and the article references legislation that will apparently be 
> introduced in the US Congress today: "WIRED has learned that senators 
> Ed Markey and Richard Blumenthal plan to introduce an automotive 
> security bill today to set new digital security standards for cars and 
> trucks".
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> The security researchers are apparently going to be releasing more 
> information about their work and the vulnerabilities they found at 
> Black Hat in Las Vegas next month.  The article indicates they have 
> been working with Chrysler for some months to get fixes available, 
> although it sounds like getting the fix applied to vehicles involves a 
> manual step and so many may remain unpatched.
>
> The attackers were able to access and manipulate the Jeep over the 
> cellular network from their home by virtue of knowing the car's IP 
> address.  (Exact mechanism of the attack to be disclosed next month.) 
>  Once connected they were able to rewrite firmware and make various 
> modifications to the vehicle's actions.
>
> As our speakers discussed this morning in the plenary, there are a 
> wide range of security issues that need to be addressed, particularly 
> as these wired-up cars are connected to the global Internet.
>
> Dan
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> P.S. Threads are naturally active on HN and Reddit:
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> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9921557
> https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/3e23ge/hackers_remotely_kill_a_jeep_on_the_highway/ 
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