Car Output Up Potential 2008 hacked

YouTube - tire pressure monitor planted in today's cars proved to be safe. A number of researchers from Rutgers University and the University of South Carolina proves it.

Wireless sensors, the device is mandatory for new cars in the United States after 2008 could be used to track vehicles. The device electronic control units (ECU) of the vehicle can also infiltrated the data problematic. This can cause ECU malfunction.

For example, as quoted from Ars Technica, August 13, 2010, researchers from the University of Washington and University of California San Diego showed that the ECU could be hacked.

Attackers could interfere with the driver. The way starting from the wiper switch, turn on the horn, until the dangerous, turn off the brake or gas pedal jammed. Recent research suggests that other systems on the same vehicle is also not safe.

Tire pressure monitor is the easiest entrance because it works wirelessly. This makes the attacker can do when in a vehicle near the target.

At trial, researchers used a device that cost around U.S. $ 1,500 including radio sensors, software, until the bugs and made ​​it into two tire pressure monitoring system is different.

The pressure sensor itself has a unique ID, so that the bugs allow researchers to identify and track vehicles from a distance. Further, the attacker could also change and falsify the results of the sensor so that the blinker switch on the dashboard or turn off the ECU as a whole.