'War Texting' lets hackers gain access to cars via GSM networks
Cellular-based automotive roadside benefit services like GM's OnStar and BMW Assist give remote unlocking of vehicles by communicating with remote servers via gauge mobile networks. Now a pair of security systems engineers have managed to confirm it takes just a few hours of clever turn topsy-turvy engineering to crack the in-car cellular network-based technology to outdistance access to vehicles. They call their method "War Texting."
Don Bailey and Mathew Solnik of sanctuary company iSEC Partners set up an ad-hoc GSM network, which allowed them to supply be in communication with directly with the in-car system, posing as authorized servers. A proprietary standards of behaviour that is normally in use proved not be secure enough. All they eventually needed to do, was to send na messages from a laptop to the car's computer.
Bailey and Solnik will up their findings during the upcoming Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas in a briefing entitled "War Texting: Identifying and Interacting with Devices on the Phone Network," although they will skip the details regarding the eat, to allow manufacturers to fix vulnerable systems.
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