And yet it is hacked

Translator's Preface:

When I was preparing a translation on the topic “ Your car may be hacked easily by hackers in the near future more than a year ago,” he was greeted by a wave of skepticism and accusations of forcing empty panic, “captaincy,” etc.

The recent tidings say that the matter still went "to the masses." Although not the first freshness news, but it is interesting, in my opinion. So, the sequel, the translation of one blog entry geekosystem.com:



Fresh frightening fact: your car can open. And not with a sledgehammer and a crowbar, but with the help of SMS. Researchers Don Bailey and Mathew Solnik, working for iSec Partners, have found a way to open cars via SMS, penetrating interaction protocols that allow applications on smartphones to control alarms (open doors, start the engine). It turned out, it is not so difficult.



The couple reported that they managed to get a way to intercept and fake these messages, which takes only 2 hours. Bailey is going to talk about his research at the upcoming Black Hat conference in Vegas, and, fortunately for automakers, he is a wise and honest guy, so he will not tell the technical details until the programmers of the companies release the corrections.



Now that these vulnerabilities are “bare”, it is surprising to realize that most of us could not even imagine such a thing. Well, you probably imagined it, but I didn't. Now “hacking” will be associated with people not only with the theft of some data, but also with the theft of quite real, physical property, sometimes costing hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Fortunately, you are not at risk if your car was born in those times when the Internet has not yet launched its teeth in everything around. No one will open the doors of your 1998 Toyota Camry with anything other than a crowbar. The targets of such attacks will be mainly cars of the higher classes of Mercedes and BMW companies, which offer such things as a standard feature in basic trim levels. Of course, because such hacking methods are becoming more common, then they will become widely used and means of protection against them. But this does not guarantee your safety, however.

Promise:

With this translation I want to provoke a discussion of current trends, when general-purpose computers and the Internet penetrate into all spheres of our life, giving both convenience and comfort, and bringing with them risks that, when translated into the physical plane, become very impressive.