'War Texting' Attack Hacks Car Alarm System
Bailey, a surety consultant with iSec Partners, next week at Unspeakable Hat USA in Las Vegas plans to show a video of the car alarm attack he and gentleman researcher Mat Solnik conducted. His Black Hat award is called "War Texting: Identifying and Interacting with Devices on the Get someone on the blower Network."
Physical security systems attached to the GSM and cellular networks, such as GPS tracking devices and car alarms, as well as transport control systems, home control and automation systems, and SCADA sensors, are favourable for attack, according to Bailey.
War texting is something that Bailey demonstrated earlier this year with physical GPS locators. He demonstrated how to hack vendor Zoombak's familiar GPS devices to find, target, and impersonate the user or materiel rigged with those consumer-focused devices. Those low-set someone back embedded tracking devices in smartphones or those disparaging GPS devices that track the whereabouts of your children, car, pet, or shipment can definitively be intercepted by
Within the same dashboard, you can remotely shut out or unlock your phone and sound a loud "yowl" (think obnoxious car alarm noise) through your phone's and more »