Engineers Can Now Wirelessly Hack Your CarThe experimenters were able to control the car's door locks, dashboard displays, and brakes using this technique.
And how did the hackers gain access to the car's systems? By hiding a Trojan Horse virus in the data file of a song burned onto a CD.
That's right, folks--be careful what music you pirate, or the pirates may come for you! (and the sweet, sweet booty of your Honda Civic.)
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Just as an aside, has anyone else found that Blogger is now behaving weirdly whenever you edit? When I try to highlight and change part of a word, it erases the whole word, and sometimes words to the right or left of the one I wanted to change, too! Quite irritating.
3 comments:
Awesome. Out here, everyone's thumb drives are loaded with pirated music. And everyone's pirated music is loaded with viruses (I know, my computer tells me whenever one of those thumb drives is plugged in).
You get what you pay for, I guess.
That's incredible! And as you say, an brilliant idea for a story.
I haven't noticed any problems with Blogger but it can be pretty temperamental.
I think there's potential for one of those "What if?" stories... maybe beginning from that point where a key containing a trojan intended to target a particular victim is stolen, and the petty thief finds themselves inadvertently sucked into something rather scary as they purely by chance happened to look rather similar to the originally-intended victim of whatever nefarious plot... possibly a kidnapping intended to 'extract information' - which of course he wouldn't have... but he might try to blag his way out rather than being killed?
Can anybody run with that?
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