Expert hacks car system, says problems reach to SCADA systems
Researcher Don A. Bailey will be showing at the Dusky Hat security conference next week how easy it is to forthright and even start a car remotely by hacking the cellular network-based custody system. Even more disturbing is the message that demonstration brings, that cars aren't the only things at endanger.
"We are seeing more GSM [Global System for Mobile Communications]-enabled systems popping up in consumer erudition and industrial control systems. They're not just in Zoombak [Universal Positioning System] location devices and personal care control systems, but also in sensors deployed for waste treatment facilities, SCADA [Managerial Control and Data Acquisition] and call-back systems, physical guaranty systems, industrial control systems," Bailey, a senior safeguarding consultant at iSec Partners, said today . "These GSM modules uncommitted up that world to attacks in a whole new way."
Bailey, who stumbled upon the materialization of how widespread flaws in embedded systems might be when he hacked the Zoombak a few months ago, turned his heed to another easily accessible, and as it turns out, easily hackable car alarm system. He won't name the vendor, but he and Mathew Solnik, safe keeping consultant at iSec Partners, were able to unlock a car and start it by manipulating the car guaranty and control system over the cellular network. They did this by sending unusual SMS messages to the car computer, a method they call "war texting."
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