Your car has on average 37 different computers inside them -- many of which can be hacked. Inside your car, little plastic boxes (OBD-II) promise to connect your car to the web, help drivers boost their fuel usage, and even lower insurance rates by reporting driving habits wirelessly to insurance companies. But some of these boxes can leave cars vulnerable to hacking, according to digital security researchers at the University of California at San Diego.
To illustrate, Wired reports, the researchers equipped a Chevrolet Corvette with one of these driver-monitoring telematics boxes and were able to take control of the vehicle using little more than SMS instructions sent to a specific phone number. The researchers were able to activate the wipers, engage the brakes and even disable the brakes at low speed. You can see the results in the video below. This method of attack emerges amid heightened anxiety over hacks on Jeep, Tesla and OnStar. While those hacks targeted the dashboard entertainment system to make the jump to remote control of vehicle systems, by attacking the OBD-II dongle, the researchers gained direct access to the vehicle's electronic brain to commit acts of mischief. And the problem isn't limited to the Corvette; the researchers warn that any vehicle equipped with an insecure telematics dongle may be at risk.
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http://www.cnet.com/news/researchers-hack-a-corvettes-brakes-via-insurance-black-box/#ftag=CAD590a51e
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