Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV is vehemently opposed to hackers’ plans to reveal how they were able to wirelessly hijack a Jeep Cherokee — and potentially hundreds of thousands of other Fiat Chrysler vehicles.
The apparent breakthrough is a major security issue not only for Fiat Chrysler, but all automakers.
Car hacking has been demonstrated in controlled simulations in recent years — mostly when hackers are physically plugged into the vehicle’s hardware. But security researchers Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller recently remotely hacked into a 2014 Jeep Cherokee in a real-world test that included disabling the SUV’s engine functions and controlling interior features such as air conditioning, locks and the radio.
The hack was detailed in an article published Tuesday by Wired magazine. It was written by Andy Greenberg, who volunteered as a “digital crash-test dummy” to drive the hacked Cherokee on a Missouri highway.
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