Fancy modern vehicles have a major defect!
Imagine the chaos on a nations roads should this ever be deployed against it...
Following on from this week's Wired report showing the remote control of a Jeep using a cell phone, security researchers claim to have achieved a similar result
using just the car radio. Using off the shelf components to create a fake radio station, the researchers sent signals using the DAB digital radio standard used in Europe and the Asia Pacific region.
After taking control of the car's entertainment system it was possible to gain control of vital car systems such as the brakes.
In the wild, such an exploit could allow widespread simultaneous deployment of a hack affecting huge numbers of vehicles.
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