Vehicles Wirelessly Hacked By Researchers - Can Take Control From Drivers: Automakers Need 'Security Bounty' Programs.

Hackers compete at the 2009 DEFCON: These sorts of gatherings are often the place
where new hacking techniques are demonstrated. (Photo by Nate Grigg)

By Steve Abrams
Yet another security researcher is demonstrating a better way to break into vehicle electronic systems, taking control from drivers in a way that could wreak havoc on the roads. While we aren't in imminent danger of wireless drive-by hacks on our cars, automakers must quickly take a more proactive role in discovering and plugging the holes in automotive computer networks before someone devises a practical exploit that requires no physical access to the car.
Automakers remain secretive about their in-vehicle computer security, but as hackers find new ways into these rolling networks, automakers need to open up, acknowledge the risks, and ask for help

At the upcoming Black Hat Asia 2014 computer security conference in Singapore, a pair of Spanish security researchers will demonstrate a smartphone-sized circuit board dubbed the 'CAN Hacking Tool' (CHT), which they claim will let them remotely take partial control of many vehicles over a wireless Bluetooth connection.

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