Boffins hack a car computer at high speed

The car is usually cut his warnings fraudulent messages stopped, but it was obvious long-term damage to your computer ..

After two days of tests, checking the electronic control unit for the belt should be replaced.

Technologies for testing cut costs about $ 1,500. μ

BOFFINS, that life, as in the fast lane was working way to hack into the system for warning the vehicle of wireless sensors.

According Jalonik, researchers at the University of South Carolina and has a wireless tire pressure sensors Rutgers, which are used by the monitoring systems to spoof wheels.

This technology is required for all new cars in the U.S. since 2008. Hacking was not easy as they had to work a secret code to go through computer control of the car. But after they could not send fake alert messages from 40 meters.

In one case a Test Drive was announced that a tire has lost all pressure signals beamed from another car while the two drove 68 mph.