VW Vulnerability Affects Almost Every VW Sold Since 1995

August 24, 2016 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

A few years ago, computer researchers discovered a problem with the VW keyless ignition system. VW sued the researchers rather than fixing the problem and delayed the release of the information about the vulnerability for two years. In VW’s defense, maybe it was difficult to close the vulnerability and it certainly would take time. […]

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The Year Of The Car Hack? GM Onstar, VW, Audi and Many Others

August 18, 2015 mitch tanenbaum Leave a comment

GM Says that they have fixed the vulnerability that allowed a hacker to take over the GM Onstar Remotelink software. Once the hacker has taken over the software, she can do anything the owner can do – remote unlock, remote start, etc. The attack worked because GM was not validating the SSL certificates […]

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