Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely

This is something that I did not know!

In the states there exists web-based vehicle-immobilization systems "used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments." 

And as we read here, these things can get hacked! From Wired:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/hacker-bricks-cars/

By Kevin Poulsen  
Threat Level
Wired.com
March 17, 2010

More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments.

Police with Austin's High Tech Crime Unit on Wednesday arrested 20-year-old Omar Ramos-Lopez, a former Texas Auto Center employee who was laid off last month, and allegedly sought revenge by bricking the cars sold from the dealership.s four Austin-area lots.

Read the whole article here: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/hacker-bricks-cars/

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