Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Chevrolet Corvette Hacked Through Tracking Device

In the latest remote-car-hacking incident, tech-news website Wired.com is reporting that researchers from the University of California at San Diego were able to seize remote control of some Chevrolet Corvette functions. They reportedly gained access to the car's internal network that controls its physical driving components, turning on the windshield wipers and disabling the brakes at low speeds. The feat was accomplished by exploiting weaknesses in a tiny device, an OBD2 dongle, commonly affixed to vehicles' dashboards and used by businesses to track the mileage and whereabouts of their fleets.

Related: Hackers Take Control of Jeep Remotely: What Owners Should Do

Researchers planned to reveal how they pulled it off during a security conference in Washington, D.C., Wired reported. They reportedly got ahold of some of the dongles and "reverse engineered" them to find a number of security deficiencies that could be used to control any vehicle function they were connected to. Their demonstration was conducted on a 2013 Corvette.

Last month, a pair of hackers demonstrated how they could take control of a Jeep's functions — including not just the car's electronics, but also everything from the air conditioning to the transmission and brakes — through the Uconnect multimedia system. This resulted in a recall of nearly 1.5 million Fiat Chrysler Automobiles cars, SUVs and pickup trucks to fix the problem.

Get the full story on the Corvette hacking from Wired here.

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