Tag Archives: car hacking

Remotely Controlling a Jeep

Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, frontier vehicle hackers, are at it again, this time they remotely controlled a jeep from about 10 miles away. Uconnect, an Internet-connected computer feature in hundreds of thousands of Fiat Chrysler cars, SUVs, and trucks, … Continue reading

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A Car is a Computer with Wheels

Your car is totally hackable. See more posts on Car Hacking

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Got $60? Reduce your Insurance Rates! Hack Your Car!

For the low price of $60, Eric Evenchick is selling a gadget that will allow a person to use a CANtact to talk directly to a vehicle’s CAN(controller area network)bus through the laptop, connected via USB to the CANtact device … Continue reading

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BMW Vulnerable to Remote Unlock

Update your BMW’s internal software and your smartphone app as soon as possible, the patch should deploy automatically by January 31st, but there is a chance your vehicle didn’t get the patch if you parked underground. The affected version of … Continue reading

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Progressive Insurance’s Snapshot Can be Used to Control Vehicles

2,000,000 vehicles already have the Progressive Snapshot plugged into them via the OnBoardDiagnostic(OBD)-II Port. Digital Bond Labs described at a security conference last week how the Snapshot could be used to hack into some vehicles’ onboard networks. Testing was limited … Continue reading

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SecurityNinjaTV DEFCON 22 Car Hacking with Charlie Miller & Chris Valasek

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The Anti-Car-Hacking Gadget?

In December of 2013, US Senator Edward Markey sent a letter to car manufacturers in regards to securing vehicles against cyber-attacks. There is a $30 hacking kit that can be used to steal BMW cars and there is a $20 … Continue reading

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Hacking Cars

A news bit about car hacking And Dr. Charlie Miller @0xcharlie presents how he has done this Car_Hacking_Hacktivity_2013_whitepaper What’s next? Well, eventually, there will be Google car hacking, I’m sure of it. Update 20140723. The good Dr. Charlie Miller will … Continue reading

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