A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100 Million Volkswagens

Later this week at the Usenix security conference in Austin, a team of researchers from the University of Birmingham and the German engineering firm Kasper & Oswald plan to reveal two distinct vulnerabilities they say affect the keyless entry systems of an estimated nearly 100 million cars. One of the attacks would allow resourceful thieves to wirelessly unlock practically every vehicle the Volkswagen group has sold for the last two decades, including makes like Audi and Škoda. The second attack affects millions more vehicles, including Alfa Romeo, Citroen, Fiat, Ford, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Opel, and Peugeot.

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A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100 Million Volkswagens was originally published on iSeeTech

A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100 Million Volkswagens was originally published on iSeeTech