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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Cars can be hacked too....

who knew?

More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments.

Police with Austin’s High Tech Crime Unit on Wednesday arrested 20-year-old Omar Ramos-Lopez, a former Texas Auto Center employee who was laid off last month, and allegedly sought revenge by bricking the cars sold from the dealership’s four Austin-area lots

2 comments:

  1. Interesting, If an average Joe can do somthing like this I wonder what thows Chinese Government hakers can do. Scary stuff.


    -D. Smith

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  2. I was wondering this the other day. Can a car be hacked to speed out of control remotely? I know they can be disabled, doors locked/unlocked remotely how about the throttle?

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