Hackers wirelessly cut a Corvette’s brakes with a simple plug and a text message

Battlezone580 · 08-11-2015, 04:04 PM

General Motors gets to join Fiat Chrysler and Tesla in an unenviable lineup this week: Using cheap gadgets and text messages, researchers have proven they can hack that most traditional of cars, the Chevy Corvette. And worse still is that this line of attack will work on basically any car with a computer in it, which is to say… all of them.

Thoughts on this? Tesla's and corvettes are being hacked into easily. Any car with a computer can be hacked into including our 5th Gen Camaro's. You could be driving along the freeway going 80mph and someone could hack in and ether cut the breaks, or even worse full acceleration and you wouldn't be able to do anything.

xc_SS/RS · 08-11-2015, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by DreamDiesel420

General Motors gets to join Fiat Chrysler and Tesla in an unenviable lineup this week: Using cheap gadgets and text messages, researchers have proven they can hack that most traditional of cars, the Chevy Corvette. And worse still is that this line of attack will work on basically any car with a computer in it, which is to say… all of them.

Thoughts on this? Tesla's and corvettes are being hacked into easily. Any car with a computer can be hacked into including our 5th Gen Camaro's. You could be driving along the freeway going 80mph and someone could hack in and ether cut the breaks, or even worse full acceleration and you wouldn't be able to do anything.

If it's stick couldn't you put it into neutral and pray that the emergency brake can haul you down to a stop?

Also how did hey cut the brakes if they're hydraulic? Don't see how this can stop the brakes, abs I can see being stopped for sure though.

Ragnar · 08-11-2015, 04:08 PM

Damn, I carry a bat all times!

maddoggyusa · 08-11-2015, 04:10 PM

read the article completely... they hacked into a device called Metromile that insurance companies plug into the vehicle. I'm guessing it plugs into the OBD port. so not the same thing.

gajagfan · 08-11-2015, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Ragnar

Damn, I carry a bat all times!

That guy from the old thread knew more then we thought I guess!

Pyrobano · 08-11-2015, 04:21 PM

Damn! And I thought we were safe.

gajagfan · 08-11-2015, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by DreamDiesel420

General Motors gets to join Fiat Chrysler and Tesla in an unenviable lineup this week: Using cheap gadgets and text messages, researchers have proven they can hack that most traditional of cars, the Chevy Corvette. And worse still is that this line of attack will work on basically any car with a computer in it, which is to say… all of them.

Thoughts on this? Tesla's and corvettes are being hacked into easily. Any car with a computer can be hacked into including our 5th Gen Camaro's. You could be driving along the freeway going 80mph and someone could hack in and ether cut the breaks, or even worse full acceleration and you wouldn't be able to do anything.

If its throttle, clutch he car and let the engine scream. I have trouble believing that they can stop hydraulic pressure, but I imagine that is what anti-locks do, so it could happen.

Welker2 · 08-11-2015, 04:24 PM

Here's another article with a video showing a 'hacker' applying the brakes ..

http://www.wired.com/2015/08/hackers...on-car-gadget/

Ragnar · 08-11-2015, 04:44 PM

Grammer pollice shold b her soon....

LSXBumblebee · 08-11-2015, 04:46 PM

Yep, and that's why you don't plug those insurance devices into your car.

gutterball · 08-11-2015, 04:59 PM

If you read the article, it says that a device was plugged into the OBD2 port. (This device is what some insurance co. use to monitor your driving). I may be wrong, but without this device, I don't think they would be able to hack in.

KR4545 · 08-11-2015, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Sanjay Collins

Why does he need a ski mask to use a laptop?

Because he is afraid of somebody hacking his laptop and turning on the front facing camera while he's hacking a car, the double whammy.

Seriously though I can hack a cars brakes by cutting the lines with a hack saw, and do it without the use of wires, wirelessly.

guerrillakilla13 · 08-11-2015, 05:13 PM

I'm not worried about it. If anything in the car shuts off i'm using my E brakes and throwing that stick into neutral.

FASTDIESEL · 08-11-2015, 06:12 PM

If you get hacked, just hit the key with your knee!!!!

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Welker2 Ret AF, cancer survivor Drives: 2013 Camaro 2SS/RS & 2006 Corvette Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Mesquite, NV Posts: 2,741 View My Garage	Here's another article with a video showing a 'hacker' applying the brakes .. http://www.wired.com/2015/08/hackers...on-car-gadget/ __________________ Last edited by Welker2; 08-11-2015 at 04:45 PM.

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maddoggyusa Drives: 2013 Camaro Dusk 2SS/6 Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: New Jersey Posts: 1,586	read the article completely... they hacked into a device called Metromile that insurance companies plug into the vehicle. I'm guessing it plugs into the OBD port. so not the same thing.

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gutterball Drives: 2014 1LS M6 Supercharged Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: New Britain, Ct Posts: 937 View My Garage	If you read the article, it says that a device was plugged into the OBD2 port. (This device is what some insurance co. use to monitor your driving). I may be wrong, but without this device, I don't think they would be able to hack in.

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guerrillakilla13 Drives: 2014 Camaro 2SS RS 1LE Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: Arizona Posts: 711	I'm not worried about it. If anything in the car shuts off i'm using my E brakes and throwing that stick into neutral.

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