tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post1877297350280564687..comments2024-02-23T01:30:06.101-08:00Comments on Early Warning: City Crippler Car WormsStuart Stanifordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182839827506265860noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-24736548377319208602010-12-21T01:28:15.317-08:002010-12-21T01:28:15.317-08:00This is the very helpful Article, If this worked c...This is the very helpful Article, If this worked correctly, the end result would be a city with all its major freeways and surface streets full of disabled cars.<br /><a href="http://www.cartradeindia.com/new/Nissan/Micra" rel="nofollow">Nissan Micra India</a>Jayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10080791983992656927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-65963192098474388052010-10-30T14:02:16.167-07:002010-10-30T14:02:16.167-07:00It is amazing how technology manages to solve one ...It is amazing how technology manages to solve one problem, only to pre-expose us to another. On one side it is bad, but on another we will never be out of jobs :)Alex Truckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10049985979989065231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-84379025478850069462010-08-23T04:48:40.475-07:002010-08-23T04:48:40.475-07:00Nice article, in the morning! There was a fictiona...Nice article, in the morning! There was a fictional short story in the German computer magazine c't some years back, where exactly this scenario was described. The hacker used it there for a drive-by-wire scenario in which all the infected cars were redirected to a specific location and arranged themselves there to spell out some love message to the hacker's girlfriend, while they all honked their horn and blinked their lights like crazy. That'll be more the 4chan-way of pursuing this whole idea, but still worthwhile to consider... ;-)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653393399748523312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-474368960936843682010-08-22T19:10:39.495-07:002010-08-22T19:10:39.495-07:00Good article, but your estimate of the attack cost...Good article, but your estimate of the attack cost is way too high. I would expect vulnerabilities to be frequently applicable across models and even manufacturers. I imaging that with a handful of test models, given your hypotheses, an attacker could probably develop generic code that would "infect" upwards of half of the theoretically vulnerable population in a target area.New Englanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06833179498376820758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-89920635932831619692010-08-21T12:38:30.258-07:002010-08-21T12:38:30.258-07:00Correlary: The auto manufacturers have no Patch Tu...Correlary: The auto manufacturers have no Patch Tuesday mechanism - and in fact probably bought the components from a much smaller 3rd party supplier.<br /><br />The half life of any of these vulnerabilities will be measured in years, not weeks.<br /><br />I guess I'll be looking into that GTO after all ...Borepatchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05029434172945099693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-42073190306255274202010-08-19T15:39:39.499-07:002010-08-19T15:39:39.499-07:00Very interesting thoughts, but the proposed attack...Very interesting thoughts, but the proposed attack method is old 3rd generation warfare thinking. John Robb would suggest that we look at whether much better attack ROIs can be achieved given the listed vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, it doesn't take me too long to come up with scenarios that fit the bill. (pun intended)<br /><br />Sure they might be more localized and cause less damage per attack, but the development and equipment investments are low and the economic damage high enough that the ROIs are much higher. It is certainly within the reach of Global Guerrillas.Eric Hackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03288021379443566141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-9636327177204015592010-08-19T07:10:03.278-07:002010-08-19T07:10:03.278-07:00Wow! China or India takes down USA at rush hour. T...Wow! China or India takes down USA at rush hour. Totally cool! I wonder if fly by wire is equally vulnerable. That would not be so funny but you could spread it over satellite GPS to all flights and knock them out of the skies. The prospects for cyberwar are awesome. Think of all the possibilities with military vehicles. Actually a CIA tpye of thing would be to target public officials and cause accidents, which would remain officially accidents as no one would let on that they were a victim of this stuff. <br /><br />I actually heard of a guy offering a cure for this tpye of stuff related to car "keys"(German public radio report on science and technology). You know, the kind where you go "beep" and the car is opened. somebody picks up the code 10 meters by wire away and can open all cars of the same make globally. The guy was on a trade fair offering his solution which I believe was individual coding for each car so it oculd not spread the risk. Maybe it changed each time according to an algorithm, I don't remember. Anyway this weakness is a car thief's dream. He could take all the Mercedes SLs in the country for the mafia and change the plates and sell them in Russia.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com