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A security researcher came up with a brilliant plan to mess up with license plate readers and ticketing systems by registering his car’s license plate as ‘NULL.’ The plan worked (sort of!) and the NULL plates managed to create a glitch in the system. But at the same time, the plan backfired spectacularly as he […]
Our world is full of good and bad people and same applies for hackers. Where there are hackers eager to use their skills for wrong purposes and we have this hacker who made sure he utilized his skills to help a family in need. News has come out revealing that a hacker whose name is […]
The concept of a connected car, or a car equipped with Internet access, has been gaining popularity for the last several years. The case in point is not only multimedia systems (music, maps, and films are available on-board in modern luxury cars) but also car key systems in both literal and figurative senses. By using […]
A Dash cam video has been uploaded on Twitter which shows that a car manufactured by Tesla is driving somewhere in the Netherlands on a highway and a collision between two cars occurs. The two cars were right in front of the Tesla car. The footage was shared by Twitter user Hand Noordsij and shows […]
With several months of in-depth research on Tesla Cars, we have discovered multiple security vulnerabilities and successfully implemented remote, aka none physical contact, control on Tesla Model S in both Parking and Driving Mode. It is worth to note that we used an unmodified car with latest firmware to demonstrate the attack. Following the global […]
A silver Jaguar XFR parked in a parking lot in Auckland, New Zealand was stolen with the help of a hacking device that sends out a fake signal mirroring a wireless key. According to the CCTV footage, the hacker just walked up to the car, opened the door and drove away. This quite clearly depicts how easy […]
As our vehicles become smarter and more dependent on computers, the risk of a car hack automatically increases. Articles titled how to hack a car are being written and it is looking like a nightmare to the car manufacturers. As a result, car hack vulnerability is one of the most researched topics in the automobile […]
image: jalopnik.com An embedded systems developer and former Tesla intern has released an open source CANard software and CANard hardware designs to help anyone to hack their connected cars using this car hacking device. Eric Evenchick has released this Python-based toolkit to work with the CAN (Controller Area Network) which is responsible for a number […]
This small sized device could hack a car, let’s see how the researchers demonstrate. Auto makers over the years have paid less attention to the threat that hackers can attack their trucks and car systems. This is based on their argument that their vehicles have increasingly networked systems which are protected through varlet wireless intrusion. […]