Hackers targeting cars in 2012: experts

george is a dumb tard LOL

My vehicle has been broken into on average of 3 times a year. Living downtown major city, parking on the busy streets sure has its price. Alarms don't stop thieves, and nobody reacts anymore to a screeming alarm. So I've changed my tactic, and installed two old webcams in the vents, and a really old laptop to the bottom of my seat which records and streams on line. Now I can print and post thieves' pictures all over neighbourhood shaming them. Next plan, having car start automatically and drive them straight to jail!
p.s. I use Castrol 10w30 at +10celsius, and George, it starts within 2 seconds ;p

Blah blah blah ... what a scam.

Help, I installed Mcafee Anti Virus on my car's O/S, and somehow my honda is booting up saying that Virus Security 2012 is installed and found 10 Trojan's.

Does anyone know how to clean my car? My friend suggested I drive backwards past 2 restore points?

Help.

I can't wait for the day I have to run a disk defragment on my car in the hopes it will make my car drive faster.

Hahaha - nice one JubeJube and Mr. T.
I imagine one day computers will have an even bigger role in our cars and cause even bigger problems.

OMG! Bush sells terrorism, Obama sells terrorism, are the American sheeple so friggin slow that they just sop this stuff up without thought or question? Who gives a rats hiney, I mean lets stop worrying about who's going to blow us up next and get back to reality. The truth is, you are about ten thousand times more likely to die from a heart attack or drunk driver than a terrorist, and if Americans are worried about their cars then the corporate smoke and mirror distraction show must really be working! talk about stupid!

Yerallnuts, you are an idiot, probably a republican. Environmentalists are not fear mongering and your GPS/GSM locator/tracker is worthless. When I come to steal your car I'll jam the signal in and out of your car with a powerful magnetic field. Then I'll just pick it with my tow truck and take it wherever I want and neither you nor the cops will ever see it again. Or maybe I'll just slimjim the door, pop the hood and disconnect the battery so your piece of crap locator/tracker doesn't work. Then I'll tow it wherever I want. Please do not be in the car when I steal it because you're an absolutely worthless moron and I wouldn't be able to get even a nickel for you for from white slavers.

You assume that just because you have never heard of anybody stealing a car by gaining access through systems like OnStar then nobody has ever done it. WTF, you think if I gain entry to your car via OnStar and jack it I'm gonna call you and tell you how I used your OnStar against you? How about you go be stupid somewhere else, douche bag.

I steal cars. It's my profession and I'm fvcking good at it. I get the repair manuals, study them and know exactly how I am going to steal your car. I know digital and analog electronics inside out, I know where every processor, transmitter-receiver is in your car and I know how to disable them and/or use them to my advantage. I don't care what you have or how you protect it I will take it if I want it. You think your stupid club on your steering wheel makes you safe because I can't cut it with a bolt cutter? Phap! I can't cut it with a bolt cutter because it's very hard steel but very hard steel is very brittle so it breaks when you bend it just a little. I have a tool that bends your club and snaps it in 30 secs and then I take your car and leave your broken club where your car was. Sometimes I stick around long enough to see the WTF look on your face and LOL when you see your broken club but not your car. You can't stop me, McAffee can't stop me and the cops just don't give a rusty rodent's rectum. I own your car; I just haven't come to pick it up yet.

@redjujube: I wish you luck in the long term in your career as as a car thief. I dare you to even get a manual for my current car (the local dealer can't get one) and my trackers are charged from the car's battery, but run for a week on their internal batteries - so while you are towing my car I'll be telling the cops where you are. Maybe if you knew where they are hidden you might be able to remove and discard them . . . yes. Them. (The correct answer is that there is more than one on board).

As to 'jamming with a 'powerful magnetic field', it doesn't quite work that way - and I should know since my background is in designing and deploying GPS & GSM based vehicle tracking applications.

I've never used any of those club-like devices - they are defeated by simply removing the steering wheel.

Bluetooth isn't going to be an access point when the car is not 'on' - about the only things running with the ignition off are the key transponders and alarm system - I have little doubt that those can be hacked - but then again my vehicles are parked indoors at both ends of my commutes and spend very little time parked on public streets. If you want to steal it, it'll be from one of those streets and you'll likely try to tow it - and I and the monitoring company will both get e-mails indicating that the vehicle has been jacked and it'll start reporting position continuously.

Presumably you hid your IP address (which is logged) when you posted - if anyone in real law enforcement sees what you claim to be they may just be looking a lot closer into the person behind the idiotic post.

And the science on Global Warming is pretty flaky - because NASA is tracking parallel warming on our sister planets (can you explain that please?) and the Earth has a demonstrated ~125,000 year heating/cooling cycle.

Any threat warnings from McAfee should be ignored. They produce some of the most incompetent Anti Virus software out there today. They are just trying to drum up business from a few big companies in order to sell more of their unneeded software to be put in things that do not need it.

FYI: Car engine control computers have already been 'hacked' many many years ago (in fact they were hacked as soon as they were introduced). The primary reason they did this was to re-tune modified engines. No biggie there... these computers were simpler in design and didn't have much in the way of anti-theft controls.

However, future threats will come from attempts at defeating anti-theft routines now increasingly built into the engine control computers. This cannot (presently) be done wirelessly on most vehicles - you need access to the service port inside the vehicle. OnStar systems are scary because they WANT to increase remote-access into the systems and this will provide theives with a portal.

As interior computers become mainstream (NAV systems, Hands-free, Voice activation, Mobile Entertainment, etc.,) there will be an increasing risk of hacking these systems. This should come as no surprise to anyone (anything that has read-write memory can potentially be hacked). But, to what end? What would a serious hacker gain by accessing these systems? These are questions to ponder. If/when car computers are connected wirelessly to the Internet or Internet-like systems (OnStar, etc.,), then you should really start to worry!

The latest trend with theives is to intercept the remote key fobs signal to lock/unlock the doors, and then steal the vehicle contents when you leave it unattended. This form of 'hacking' is the real threat so far (not maliciously uploaded software).

Tired of paying high Onstar fees?
Or to using your Onstar at all?

We have a solution
BlueStar 2010

www.bluestar2010.com

i can't afford a year 2012 car.

im not worried at all. I have a 1999 honda accord!!!!

@redjujube, A real car thief knows how to disable those stupid clubs. What you describe makes you look like a retard. Your no car thief, your a joke!

To Mrs. Wonderful, welcome to the real world! To George and Mike, as for oil changes vs. computers vs. cold starts, well I think the topic about computers in automobiles is more interesting, so here is my take: Those uneducated who have nothing better to do will key paint, knife tires, break windshields, steal from consoles, glove boxes, and those educated dummies hack automobile computers...all newer cars have computers, but some with bluetooth like Ford can also talk to you, and the hacker will talk back wherever you are. I think there is troubled water ahead.

This is why I'll never get a vehicle that has Onstar or anything that can listen to and record your conversations without it even being activated. I have to agree that McAfee is just trying to scare people into buying their products BUT for those people who will spend the money to have their vehicles connected to their smartphones, or be insistent on installing the newest computer into their car, it makes it a lot easier for theives to target and break into those vehicles. Instead of having to carry the tools for the break-in, all they'd have to carry is their phones or a small computer that would tell them which vehicles are computer-reliant, and with a few clicks, the car is unlocked, disarmed and ready to drive. Someone tried selling me that program that hooks up an iPhone or Blackberry to my 2001 F150, needless to say, I didn't even consider buying it. Not only is it easier to break into, but if you lose your phone and don't have your keys, your pretty much out of luck.

Ok i got a great laugh with this very ealy april fools joke.
Does anybody remember 'Y2K' ? water will even stop flowing because a computer programmers oversight?

there is nothing a hacker would even bother with in a cars computer, it also known as a 'body control module' or 'engine control module'
and contains absolutely no data worth a plug nickle.

Who cares... get insurance.

agreed

@ redjujube,

The Enviromentalists will be doing this,they are all crazy people !!! They want to force people into riding a bicycle,so this is right up their alley !!

And the left always resorts to fear mongering ,lies..in fact that is all they have,they are very angry people swear non stop,ect......Enjoy life,freedom and the freedom to drive a car or truck or walk/bike without someone forcing you into anything !

Remember they said by 2010 the East and West Coast of America would be under water...lol....never happened....They lie,lie and lie !!! They also said back in 2000 Europoe will no longer see snow..hows that working for them..lol !!! They are cold and under a ton of snow !!!

They're all upset because the hackers brought down several police computers. Now there's another thing to fear. You're not safe anywhere! Run, hide, give the government all your freedoms. It's your only chance to be safe.

Give me a break.
Wind up the swine flu pandemic again.
That worked well last time.

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