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Fiat Chrysler's bad week just got even worse: the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has recalled 1.4 million of the manufacturer's cars after a dangerous software flaw was revealed just days ago.
Renowned hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek warned on Tuesday of a ridiculous vuln in the computer systems built into Fiat Chrysler cars: the flaw can be exploited by an attacker to wirelessly take control of the engine, brakes and entertainment system.
The cars connect to the internet via Fiat Chrysler's uConnect cellular network, and thus can be accessed and tampered with from miles away by anyone who knows the vehicle's public IP address. No authentication is required. The US network has been attempting to block incoming connections, we're told. The motor giant has produced a software fix for the root cause of the vulnerability – unfortunately, the update has to be manually installed via a USB stick plugged into the car.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday July 27 2015, @07:21PM
Right now a motivated enough 3rd party team could probably find a way to stream your location data and send you spam without the mfgr's cooperation.
Think how much money quicktrip would pay to blast an audio commercial over the speakers when you're slowing down to pull into a mobil gas station with a low gas tank... stuff like that.
Do you seriously believe they could withstand the lawsuits from such a stunt?
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday July 27 2015, @08:37PM
LOL maybe the strategy is threaten to do it unless they get money to not do it.