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Watch hackers remotely immobilize a car while it’s traveling on a highway

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One brave Wired journalist agreed to drive a Jeep on a St. Louis highway while two hackers hacked it remotely, taking control of everything from the air conditioning to the transmission.

The entire ordeal was captured on video, which you can view with the article at Wired. 

The hackers, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, had just two years earlier performed a similar hack while the same journalist drove a car slowly in a parking lot. The bigger difference that time was that the hack was performed through a laptop that was hardwired to the car’s onboard diagnostic port, and which the hackers controlled from the backseat. In that case, they limited their exploits to toying with the seatbelt and honking the horn.

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Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It | WIRED – Wired

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Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It | WIRED
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So Miller has a cheap Kyocera Android phone connected to his battered MacBook. He's using the burner phone as a … The result would be a wirelessly controlled automotive botnet encompassing hundreds of thousands of vehicles. “For all the critics in …

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iPhone, iPad and Mac bug could allow hackers to remotely launch DoS attack

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A VULNERABILITY affecting iPhones, iPads and Macs that could allow an attacker to remotely activate a denial of service (DoS) attack has been found by researchers at security firm Kaspersky Lab. The threat was discovered in the kernel of Darwin, an open …
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Security researcher warns cars can be hacked to remotely take control

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Imagine a job where you go into work, sit down at your desk, boot up your machine and then launch a cyberattack on a car while it is being driven on the other side of the globe. While that might sound like a movie plot, security research engineer Jonathan Brossard says it’s possible.
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