Hackers Take Hijacked Jeep Cherokee for Joyride
White-hat hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek remotely took over a Jeep Cherokee, ran its controls, then cut the transmission as it sped at 70 mph along Interstate 64 in an experiment conducted with Wired.
They turned on the air conditioning, switched radio channels, turned on the windshield wipers, activated the windshield washer fluid pump, and transmitted a photo of themselves to the vehicle's digital display -- all from a laptop 10 miles away.
The hackers attacked through Chrysler's Uconnect infotainment system. Uconnect is on about half a million Chrysler vehicles, including several of the automaker's brands, all of which are at risk. Miller and Valasek selected the Jeep Cherokee after several months' research, because it was the most vulnerable.
