Post by kas on Mar 21, 2011 9:46:15 GMT -5
The Sound of Hacking: Researchers Use Trojan CD to Hack Car
Mar 11, 2011 | 3:51 PM ET | By Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
You won’t hear it, and you won’t know it’s happening, but the next time you put a CD in your car stereo, you could be giving a hacker access to your car’s entire computer system.
Security researchers at the University of California, San Diego and the University of Washington were able to add extra code to a digital music file, effectively creating a Trojan horse, PC World reported.
Once inserted into the car’s stereo, the Trojan track gave the researchers the ability to alter the stereo’s firmware, and from there, they gained access to the car’s full computer system. The track could be spread via file-sharing networks, the researchers said.
“It’s hard to think of something more innocuous than a song,” Stefan Savage, a UCSD professor told PC World.
Mar 11, 2011 | 3:51 PM ET | By Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer
You won’t hear it, and you won’t know it’s happening, but the next time you put a CD in your car stereo, you could be giving a hacker access to your car’s entire computer system.
Security researchers at the University of California, San Diego and the University of Washington were able to add extra code to a digital music file, effectively creating a Trojan horse, PC World reported.
Once inserted into the car’s stereo, the Trojan track gave the researchers the ability to alter the stereo’s firmware, and from there, they gained access to the car’s full computer system. The track could be spread via file-sharing networks, the researchers said.
“It’s hard to think of something more innocuous than a song,” Stefan Savage, a UCSD professor told PC World.
www.securitynewsdaily.com/the-sound-of-hacking-researchers-use-trojan-cd-to-hack-car-0604/