[Year 12 SofDev] Data security - Lethal hacking

[Mark]

Will you soon need software firewalls, antivirus and malware scanners for
your Toyota or Jeep?

"ALMOST EXACTLY A year ago, Chrysler announced a recall for 1.4 million
vehicles after a pair of hackers demonstrated to WIRED that they could
remotely hijack a Jeep’s digital systems over the Internet. For Chrysler,
the fix was embarrassing and costly.

"But now those two researchers have returned with work that asks Chrysler
and the automotive industry to imagine an alternate reality, one where
instead of reporting their research to the automaker so it could be fixed,
they had kept working on it in secret—the way malicious hackers would have.
In doing so, they’ve developed a new hack that offers a sobering lesson: It
could have been—and still could be—much worse."

Read more

https://www.wired.com/2016/08/jeep-hackers-return-high-speed-steering-acceleration-hacks/

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Mark Kelly

mark at vceit.com
http://vceit.com
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