They're hackable with physical access. But with physical access you can also snip a brake line, wire in a bomb, so much other stuff. They're basically unhackable over-the-air. (Source: did a bunch of research as a "security expert" when my company needed to release some official statements).
So it's good for disguising an "accident" but not really anything to worry about otherwise.
Here's the whitepaper on how it's been done. It took them a year of phyiscal access to come up with a solution that could theoretically be done entirely remotely, for one specific firmware version of car, resulting in an attack that takes hours in order to work. http://illmatics.com/Remote%20Car%20Hacking.pdf It's just absolutely not worth doing
You know the new cars? You drive every day. Hackable.
They're hackable with physical access. But with physical access you can also snip a brake line, wire in a bomb, so much other stuff. They're basically unhackable over-the-air. (Source: did a bunch of research as a "security expert" when my company needed to release some official statements).
So it's good for disguising an "accident" but not really anything to worry about otherwise.
Here's the whitepaper on how it's been done. It took them a year of phyiscal access to come up with a solution that could theoretically be done entirely remotely, for one specific firmware version of car, resulting in an attack that takes hours in order to work. http://illmatics.com/Remote%20Car%20Hacking.pdf It's just absolutely not worth doing
No backdoor into On-star?