While I have written about this in general before, this item is specific to the Land Rover and its “Discovery” model. If this is a surprise to you, it should not be. If you buy a used Land Rover, it is possible (likely) that the previous owner can still control your car through the Land […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I don’t think that Allstate is a whole lot different than other insurance companies; maybe they are just being more open about it. Allstate has announced a new company called Arity, who’s job it is to sell your data. Insurance companies have a lot of data and creating more every day. One part of the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Car makers are limiting the data they are sharing with Apple and Google though car entertainment systems (what the car makers call infotainment). This is not because they value your privacy, but rather because they want to be able to sell your data themselves and if they no longer own it because they gave […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Yup, that is all it takes. Eric Evenchick will present at Blackhat Asia a $60, open source, car hacking tool (see article). You have to provide your own USB and OBD2 cables. With Eric’s CANCard and his library of Python based scripts, you can hack around in your car (or maybe someone else’s) and see […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Probably many of you saw the 60 Minutes segment on hacking your car (see video here). In the 60 Minutes segment, the researcher/hacker was able to turn on the wipers and washers, blow the horn and disable the brakes in that demonstration. Here is a link to a conversation with the guys who did the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Yes, that is basically the summary of a Network World Article on the subject. In a high end car there are hundreds of computers and millions of lines of software. Gone are the days when you car was a big hunk of machined metal. Now your car is a super computer network on wheels. The […]
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