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
I used to work in the automotive cyber industry. If your car has a connection to the internet - it can be hacked.
All you need is a way into the CAN bus. The CAN bus is the electrical cable(s) that controls basically everything in the car, including your windows, lights, gear, gear interlock, brakes, and gas.
Your entertainment system is connected to it (so for example, it can show the radio station on your dashboard). Meaning, you hack that (and its not hard), you pretty much control the entire car.
It's an old system from the 80s and has ZERO security measures. It's extremely easy to control a car through the internet given a connection.
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
Not true.
I used to work in the automotive cyber industry. If your car has a connection to the internet - it can be hacked.
All you need is a way into the CAN bus. The CAN bus is the electrical cable(s) that controls basically everything in the car, including your windows, lights, gear, gear interlock, brakes, and gas.
Your entertainment system is connected to it (so for example, it can show the radio station on your dashboard). Meaning, you hack that (and its not hard), you pretty much control the entire car.
It's an old system from the 80s and has ZERO security measures. It's extremely easy to control a car through the internet given a connection.