[cryptome] Car Hacking
- From: "Al Mac Wow" <macwheel99@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <cryptome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 09:37:47 -0500
Here are some links to lots of details state-of-art of car hacking, or cyber
attack on vehicles, causing drivers to lose control of vital functions
essential for safe operations. This is not science fiction anymore.
There are legitimate ways to remotely take over a car's controls. Some of
those ways can be hacked. OnStar has Stolen Vehicle
<https://www.onstar.com/web/portal/securityexplore> Slowdown technology
allowing for remote control of vehicles, such as to stop a high-speed car
chase [video <http://youtu.be/1y3D-tevC-w> ]. A disgruntled laid-off hacker
in Austin, Texas, remotely
<http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/hacker-bricks-cars/> hacked more
than 100 vehicles, bricking or disabling some cars and causing others to
have "horns honking out of control."
A few years ago, there was a fear that the sudden acceleration problem of
some vehicles, might have been caused by malware getting thru the car's
electronic communication systems into the control systems. Government and
Automotive powers that be basically said "this risk is highly unlikely, we
refuse to investigate that theory", according to what I heard them saying,
at Congressional Hearings on the topic, which I watched on C-Span.
http://www.autosec.org/publications.html
http://www.autosec.org/pubs/cars-oakland2010.pdf
http://www.autosec.org/pubs/cars-usenixsec2011.pdf
Several people have been researching the possibilities.
http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/when-car-hacking-turns-your-vehicle-vi
deo-game
http://www.ted.com/talks/avi_rubin_all_your_devices_can_be_hacked.html
We will need to get a firewall for our personal car, like we have for our
personal computer, and personal communications. What else do we need a
firewall for?
http://m.blogs.computerworld.com/cybercrime-and-hacking/22398/car-hacking-ca
r-cyberattack-possible-theory-behind-journalists-death
http://www.salon.com/2013/06/25/hacking_a_car_is_way_too_easy/
Journalist assassinated by unidentified enemy hacking his car, causing it to
crash. This is an unproven conspiracy theory. A cyber attack on a car is
almost impossible to back trace to the culprits, and in this case the car is
too badly damaged to know if there even was a cyber attack.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/20/autos-hackers-idUSnL2E8JJ332012082
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A group of academics described ways to infect cars using Bluetooth systems
and wireless networks in 2011. But the academics kept details of their work
a closely guarded secret, refusing even to identify the make of the car they
hacked.
http://thehackernews.com/2013/07/Hacking-car-remote-control-vulnerabilities.
html
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/26/the-terrifying-5-minute-video-sho
wing-how-its-possible-to-hack-a-car-and-make-it-do-some-freaky-things/
They had to make a physical connection to the car's diagnostic systems to do
the stuff illustrated.
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/can-your-car-be-hacked-feature
Someone first learned how to do that kind of thing in 2010.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/28/net-us-hackers-cars-idUSBRE96R0612
0130728
https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-21/dc-21-speakers.html#Miller
More info is coming out.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/28/car-hacking
Details banned in Britain, on how to hack high end vehicles.
http://i-hls.com/2013/07/can-cars-be-hacked/
http://digimag.govexec.com/article/Car+Hacking/1296337/144196/article.html
Here are additional examples of car hacking risks or fears, which I had not
previously known about. There also have been several TV fiction episodes
involving cars being hacked, and conference seminars identifying specific
vulnerabilities.
Al Mac = Alister William Macintyre
Yes, this is me:
http://cryptome.org/2013/02/drone-nations.htm
http://cryptome.org/2013/06/usa-drones.htm
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