11:30 Your car in the near future can be easily compromised by hackers | |
| "If you use your computer - you can hack" - a well-known axiom. In the world of computers is almost nothing that would not budge cracking, and if the attackers could penetrate the rather complicated dekstopny computer, it would prevent a hacker to penetrate the resolute on-board computer of your car? Tadayoshi Kohno (Tadayoshi Kohno) from the University of Washington, Seattle, and Stefan Savage (Stefan Savage) from the University of San Diego, California, were able to write software called CarShark and using it, and two Laptop entered remotely into the computer the car could turn off the engine, engage the brake or turn them off, bring the speedometer arbitrary values ??of speed and inscriptions. The guys released pdf-ku with a description of their work, and also answered some questions: Q: Tell me more about the study. Did you have physical access to a car or all of this can be done remotely? Savage: In the document we do not dwell in detail on how to achieve the result much more important to understand that what may be the effect of the fact that someone has penetrated into the system on your vehicle. We are connected to the diagnostic port, it is standard for most cars and is located near the steering wheel. Kohno: In this study we wanted to draw attention to the evolution of cars, in the hope that the automakers will be able in future to provide protection against this penetration. Savage: Remember the computers early 90's. They had a lot of potential vulnerabilities, but it did not matter much, because the computer was at home and was not connected anywhere. When we began to connect them to the Internet, all these potential vulnerabilities have become quite real. Cars repeat this way. Tendency to connect vehicle to wireless networks, so that it is time to begin to strengthen the protection of the internal systems of automobiles, until it became a real problem. Q: Can you give an example where the car can be compromised? Savage: This may be a car mechanic, or a jealous passion, which have the possibility of temporary access to the car. This person will be able to connect to and download malicious code there. Today it is more fantasy than a real threat, of course. Note. TRANSFER.: but it does not interfere in the near future, the same mechanics quietly connected to the diagnostic connector special device that will be available via the Internet. Kohno: Today, all focused on botnets and security of Web applications. We want to make sure that in 5-10 years the machine does not fill up this list. Q: You've written a tool called CarShark, which implements a similar attack, is not it? Kohno: The tool implements a lot of what we studied. He is working on a computer connected to the connector OBD-II (On-Board Diagnostics II) and can send / receive data over the network. Q: After all, someone can use this tool in order to bad! Savage: We will not publish it. We have tried to maintain a balance in our study. We are not interested in raising a panic. Feasible if the attack? Yes. In the end, software in your car does not differ radically from what is installed in your PC. Via cnet.com and popfi.com In general, anything unusual or in excess of the new guys did not, of course. But the issue raised by them sufficiently relevant, in my opinion. And how do you think, a resident Habra? Upd: Precedents have already been: A hacker has blocked more than 100 cars over the Internet. Upd2: Chevrolet Volt will be installed AndroidOS. | |
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