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100 Million Volkswagen Cars Vulnerable to Wireless Hack Due to 20-year-old Flaw

posted by n1 on Sunday August 14 2016, @09:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the open-sesame dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for butthurt

A duo of computer experts at the University of Birmingham, Flavio Garcia and David Oswald, have uncovered two flaws in VW's keyless entry systems that could allow hackers to remotely unlock over 100 million cars sold by the firm since 1995.

The first vulnerability gives hackers the ability to remotely break into nearly every car VW has sold since 2000, while the second impacts "millions" more vehicles including models from Ford, Peugeot and Citroen.

Source: The Inquirer

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @09:33AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @09:33AM (#387809)

    Let's redistribute the wealth, in the form of cars.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @10:13AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @10:13AM (#387813)

    I bought a 3rd-hand golf that came with 1 dumb key. Already on a low rung here and don't even know if my car has a transponder built in :-P If I understand this replay-esque attack I'm safe assuming there is no "golden key"...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @10:42AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @10:42AM (#387817)

      If I understand this replay-esque attack I'm safe assuming there is no "golden key"...

      That would be a "Golden Backdoor Key, with Flourishes" if it was a Microsoft system. Oh, god no, please, don't say it was a Microsoft system! Argghhhhh! First it was IBM doing the data crunching for the Third Reich, Better Dying Through Computing, and then the total mess up in the Final Countdown Downunder!! And now, The Evil Empire of Redmond, conspiring with the spawn of Adolf's promise that every German should have a car, even if it was a shitty, underpowerered car that would Carbon Monoxide poison you with the heating system, in order to secure our boarders who want a free on board ride via Uber, as in Ubermensch, and ; ; ;; ,..k;kd;jd; It all becomes clear to me now. They never lost, they just went underground, capitalist underground, and now they are back, back to unlock our cars against our will! Are we going to allow this? I say, NO! Who's with me! What, just you, jmorris? Wait, you didn't buy a TDI too, did you?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @07:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @07:34PM (#387944)

    That'll be "Robin Bonnet" to you...