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Modern cars vulnerable to malicious hacks
This story is from the category Connectivity
Date posted: 16/05/2010
Using a laptop and custom-written software, researchers at University of Washington and University of California, San Diego were able to hack into the control systems of a car.
In tests done wirelessly via the Internet, they demonstrated that they could disable the brakes and turn off the engine while the vehicle was moving at 65 kilometres per hour.
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