As cars increasingly become rolling computers, it makes them potential targets for hackers.
To make the point, two researchers at the Black Hat annual conference of hackers and security pros last week in Las Vegas showed they could unlock and start the engine of a Subaru Outback via text messages using their Android smartphone, reports CNN Tech and Engadget.
usa today
/ Fred Meier : 7 August 2011
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You did not request that strange Web site on your browser, but your computer may have. According to new research presented at both the annual Black Hat USA and DefCon conferences this week in Las Vegas, hardware flaws, heat and cosmic rays may be flipping 1s and 0s and changing URL addresses.
forbes
/ Robert Vamosi : 5 August 2011
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