A bug in Land Rover software leads to spontaneous unlocking of doors.

The automaker Land Rover recalls more than 65,000 cars to fix a software bug that leads to the spontaneous unlocking of car doors. At the same time, the driver will not see any notification about the opening of the door on the dashboard.

An error has been detected on Range Rover and Range Rover Sport cars, launched since 2012. The automaker said that the failure of the computer system did not lead to any incidents or injuries.
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However, this problem in the software can also lead to an increase in the likelihood of car theft - cars, in which the ignition works without a key, are subject to an error.

As noted by the BBC, representatives of Land Rover stated that the recall of cars is not associated with the previously discovered problems of starting the engine without a key and locking the doors, which made luxury SUVs of various popular auto-stealers.

Last year, the media reported that the criminals had learned how to steal Land Rover, BMW and Audi cars using a special program that uses bugs in the software of cars and allows you to reprogram the car keys.



It was reported that in the UK, after a series of similar publications, some insurance companies refused to insure Range Rover cars in cases where the owners did not have a parking space in a secure parking lot.

Car theft is not the only thing that might interest intruders. Another popular activity is unlocking some of the functions of the car, available only in more expensive models. In 2013, at the PHDays information security forum, Kirill Yermakov and Dmitry Sklyarov talked about hacking the ECU (Electronic Control Unit) vehicle control microcontroller to unlock functions that allow for maximum efficiency of the vehicle systems. Slides of this presentation can be viewed at the link .