Report: Jeep Cherokee, Infiniti Q50, Cadillac Escalade Are The Most Hackable Cars In America. The Car Connection
September 2, 2015
By: Richard Read
For the past couple of months, the auto world has been obsessed with hackers -- and with good reason.
Like their drivers, cars now belong to vast online networks. Those networks provide plenty of benefits like navigation tools and infotainment, but they also provide opportunities for hackers to wreak havoc.
Forensic consultants PT&C/LWG have analyzed network security features in late-model vehicles and come up with a short list of the most-vulnerable -- and least-vulnerable -- cars on the road. They also provide some handy tips to help drivers avoid being targets.
Well the gto doesn't have stability control or onstar and I am sure that it is unhackable, but it is also one of the most wrecked cars. Geez. I think that there only 10 left out of the 41,000 made. LOL! I'll take the driver aids over getting hacked and potentially losing my car. Because that's what insurance is for.
is it secure or lack of big OEM supplier parts and LESS "knowledge " about there systems?
to me it would seam easy to have the "high risk" systems isolated from the lower risk network and if needed a one way "gateway" from high security TO low security
OMG, allpar "journalism" is never a good source for anything. In reality however, the story actually goes, that they spent a year researching car-hacking abilities. As in the systems and wiring harness specs for various cars on the market currently. They didn't just make up the list of least and most hackable. It took research. Then demonstrated such abilities on the easiest ones. Such as the widely reported Jeep Cherokee example.
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