Remotely Killing A Jeep
Wired: "
Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway -- With Me in It"
All of this is possible only because Chrysler, like practically all
carmakers, is doing its best to turn the modern automobile into a
smartphone. Uconnect, an Internet-connected computer feature in hundreds
of thousands of Fiat Chrysler cars, SUVs, and trucks, controls the
vehicle’s entertainment and navigation, enables phone calls, and even
offers a Wi-Fi hot spot. And thanks to one vulnerable element, which
Miller and Valasek won’t identify until their Black Hat talk, Uconnect’s
cellular connection also lets anyone who knows the car’s IP address
gain access from anywhere in the country...