Hacking Transportation Devices – 0wning Cars!
Last Summer we published a short article about an experimental study of modern car sensors systems and their security. Researches took a modern car, connected to the internal data bus and tried to do some hacking. They were able to manipulate on-board systems up to controlling the brakes and the engines. The study shows that once you have access to the (internal) network, you can do things that were most probably never anticipated by the designers. Arguably the risks of these kind of attacks is rather low – for now. However if you think about the Internet, software working in networked environments or the plethora of devices that can be connected to computers, then the number of attack vectors increases. This is not breaking news. You can see this trend in the wonderful world