For years, computer experts Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek warned the automotive industry for their cars to be cut. A sufficiently skilled “hacker” can get into cars’ computer systems and wireless remote control functions such as steering, braking and transmission. Now it is over to the warnings, Miller and Valasek think outsource software code online to show how unprotected today’s cars are.
It is the US Wired magazine who interviewed computer experts Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek and got a hands-on demonstration of how bad the security is of modern cars. First on the road, where the reporter suddenly ice cold air from the AC, windshield washer started and then locked the automatic gearbox in neutral and the car rolled helplessly to the side.
On a parking lot could then Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek show the most dangerous ways to remotely control a car. Again, the reporter sat helpless when the wheel was turned out of his hand and the brakes disconnected. As you look at the car drove the car to the parking lot and down in a ditch, an unpleasant picture of what can happen.
Two years ago showed Miller Valasek how the relatively simple could control the functions of a Toyota Prius and Ford Escape. That time they took into via car diagnostic socket. The reaction from Ford and Toyota were not what they were hoping for, automakers dismissed the demonstration and protested that their cars were safe for hacker attacks.
That is not the warnings were taken seriously inspired Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek to go even deeper into in today’s modern cars and their increasingly frequent connections to the Internet. For a computer hacker is the network port that is the way into a computer and there are lots of ways to trick firewalls and virus software.
In the US Chrysler brands “Uconnect Systems” for To connect to the cars wirelessly to the Internet via the mobile network. It rolls today nearly half a million cars from Chrysler with Uconnect and there is a method of using a cellular phone find cars IP number, a so-called “personal” for each device connected to the Internet.
Charlie Miller (left) and Chris Valasek has worked for years trying to get the auto industry to take the threats seriously . Now think of publishing software code to put pressure on Chrysler to really improve security.
The vulnerability that Miller Valasek found at Uconnect thought the first would only exist within the car’s wifi reach, since they believed that it would be limited to the same mobile phone mast. But they discovered that Chrysler Cars IP number can be traced up anywhere in North America where there is mobile coverage. “When we were terrified.” says Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek Wired, “it is pure dream location for hackers.”
During the nine months the two computer experts collaborated with Chrysler to clog the escape hatch. There is now an upgraded software but it must be installed physically in each car, which means that many car owners will not do it.
Charlie Miller Chris Valasek is not satisfied with this but believes that car makers must fully take responsibility for their vehicles so they can be remotely controlled by hackers. To really put pressure on Chrysler thinks they publish the code on the security exhibition “Black Hat” in Las Vegas in early August.
“The automotive industry has been thought that this kind of program and threats never become a reality,” says the professor, security expert Stefan Savage at Wired. “But that time is over now.”
Another security expert, Josh Corman, tells Wired that the automotive industry must not make the same mistakes that the computer business did. Where banned and chased it all the hackers with police assistance for 15-20 years before it was realized that cooperation was the right path. Best way to secure computer systems is that in the pre-letting hackers to test them and clog the deficiencies before products come out to the consumer.
What do you think readers? Do you feel insecure and should auto industry hiring hackers to improve safety?
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