Computer security researcher Mathew Solnik and Don Bailey fromiSec Partnershave discovered a way to unlock your car doors and take up your elevator car remotely using SMS place from a laptop .
The pair intercepted the wireless substance that run between a motorcar and a software - free-base remote control system like that fromOnStar .
It took them about two hour to break the protocol behind this communication and double it with a laptop . If that is n’t unsettling enough , they ’ve been able-bodied to practice this attack against two dissimilar car system , thus far .
The pair will present this drudge which they call “ war texting ” at theBlack Hat conferencelater this workweek . Being white hat hackers , they wo n’t release all the technical details until this exploit has been patched . [ connection World;Shutterstock / Tito Wong ]
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