Electronic systems in cars easily "hack" with a cellphone

American hackers found a way to remotely “open” and steal cars using for this purpose only phone or laptop.

According to KHABAR KHODRO, Programmers from the U.S. Don Bailey and Matthew Solnik found a way to hack car with a remote control and telemetry systems, such as the BMW Assist, GM OnStar, Ford Sync and Hyundai Blue Link. These systems communicate with remote servers via the standard car manufacturers links, for example, GSM and CDMA. Hackers have found a way to connect to the onboard computers of cars, so that the system on those computers fulfill their team.

These “holes” in software auto thieves give truly unlimited possibilities. Bailey and Solnik said to break security systems for data transmission between the vehicle and server vendors took them about two hours, reports SecurityLab.

On his opening programmers are going to tell the conference Black Hat USA, which will take place next week. According to the hackers, they prepared a video presentation of how one could make any vehicle equipped with one of the above systems, with a laptop. However, detailed information about detected vulnerabilities will be presented to the public only after the car manufacturers will be able to fix them