[Year 12 SofDev] Data security - Lethal hacking

[Mark]

And now - this:

Hackers Hijack a Big Rig Truck’s Accelerator and Brakes

https://www.wired.com/2016/08/researchers-hack-big-rig-truck-hijack-accelerator-brakes

Mark

On 2 August 2016 at 15:33, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:

> 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/
>
> --
>
> Mark Kelly
>
> mark at vceit.com
> http://vceit.com
>



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Mark Kelly

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