Team of hackers take remote control of Tesla Model S from 12 miles away

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Source: The Guardian

Three months since the first fatal crash involving a Tesla driving in autopilot mode, hackers have taken remote control of a Tesla Model S from a distance of 12 miles, interfering with the car’s brakes, door locks, dashboard computer screen and other electronically controlled features in the high-tech car.

A team of Chinese security researchers – Samuel LV, Sen Nie, Ling Liu and Wen Lu from Keen Security Lab – were able to target the car wirelessly and remotely in an attack that could cause havoc for any Tesla driver.

The hack targeted the car’s controller area network, or Can bus, the collection of connected computers found inside every modern vehicle that control everything from its indicators to its brakes. In a video demonstrating the vulnerability, the hackers targeted both the Tesla Model S P85 and Model 75D, although they said it would work on other models too.

By hijacking the car’s Can bus, the hackers could move the seats back and forth, trigger the indicators, wing mirrors and windscreen wipers, and open the sunroof and boot while the car was driving and in parking mode. More worryingly, the hackers could also control the car’s brakes, which could be dangerous if deployed suddenly while the vehicle was traveling at high speed on a motorway.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/20/tesla-model-s-chinese-hack-remote-control-brakes

[Throd]

1. Good luck hacking my '73 Cutlass.

[zonkers]

7. Or my 90 corolla.

[cstanleytech]

2. Things like this make me wonder why the government isnt saying "hell no" to plans for

drone delivery services.

[NWCorona]

3. I don't know why these don't operate on the secure Zigbee network

[Plucketeer]

4. What does

"secure" mean these days?

[NWCorona]

5. Very true but at least it would follow military grade protocols.

Having all these open ports of entry on what's basically a fly by wire car isn't very smart.

I do get your point tho.

[Ligyron]

6. When truckers and delivery drivers are put out of work by driverless delivery vehicles

expect a lot of this type of hacking going on in a big way with serious accidents occurring.

[ColemanMaskell]

11. Wait for autopilot driverless Brinks and Treasury trucks :-)

[uncle ray]

17. ...by hordes of unemployed truck drivers turned murderous hackers?

[Ligyron]

19. Naw, they don't have the skill set for that.

But now their kids...

[MADem]

21. The first guy executed for capital murder would probably put the kabash on that pretty quick.

And they'd find a work around before it started happening as a matter of routine.

Once upon a time, there was no such thing as "anti-virus" programs for your computer.

With need, comes innovation...

[FrodosPet]

8. The first Tesla Autopilot fatal crash was about 5 months earlier, in China

[Kablooie]

9. Looks like they need a black box the same as airplanes.

I thought they had something like that but maybe not.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

16. They do but Tesla needs access to it as it won't transmit.

[NickB79]

22. If the autopilot didn't get him, that smog would have

My god, that's horrific air quality....

[truthisfreedom]

10. Aaaaaaannnnnndddd... it's fixed already. Tesla pushes out updates over the air. There's no recalls

for software updates. They just get fixed.

http://fortune.com/2016/09/20/tesla-security-bug-hack/

[FrodosPet]

12. Were they certified by the NHTSA?

The 15-Point Federal Checklist for Self-Driving Cars

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/21/technology/the-15-point-federal-checklist-for-self-driving-cars.html?_r=0

~ snip ~

CERTIFICATION Any software updates or new driverless features must be submitted to the N.H.T.S.A.

~ snip ~

Tesla should follow Uber's lead and tell the feds to shove a sock in it. Their responsibility is to the shareholders of Tesla, not a bunch of Washington luddites.

[jmowreader]

13. Uh-huh...

There are hackers out there who would LOVE to turn a Tesla into Christine. I think Elon Musk's company has the responsibility of making sure no one can actually do it.

[FrodosPet]

14. For shame for bringing up that concept. You are disrupting the innovators!

Noting is more important than disruption and innovation. So quit disrupting the innovators, you Luddite!

The new paradigm on our side is: Corporations are bad unless they can get my drunk ass home without a DUI after my weekly self-poisonings. In which case, leave them alone to conduct business however they see fit because taxi people are denizens of Hades, always late, rude, and dirty, and probably all Trump voters.

[jmowreader]

15. Someone needs to disrupt them

There are things that really, really need to be done by people, and driving is one of them.

[Grins]

20. It's not just Tesla!

"...the hackers targeted both the Tesla Model S P85 and Model 75D, although they said it would work on other models too."

It's a much bigger assault and aimed at a much bigger target.

[Sunlei]

18. some countries can have 200 passenger 'cars' long distance overhead trans systems up in a month..

USA gets 300k each, ground based hackable crash cars.