Anon Archived Researchers discover security problems under the hood of automobile apps (arstechnica.com)
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'Malware researchers Victor Chebyshev and Mikhail Kuzin examined seven Android apps for connected vehicles and found that the apps were ripe for malicious exploitation. ', "Therefore, after accessing the inside of a car, car thieves use a programming unit to write a new key into the car's on-board system."
'Six of the applications had unencrypted user credentials, and all of them had little in the way of protection against reverse-engineering or the insertion of malware into apps. '
'Two of the seven apps used unencrypted user logins and passwords, making theft of credentials much easier. ', "In a presentation at this week's RSA security conference in San Francisco, researchers from Kaspersky Labs revealed more bad news for the Internet of drivable things—connected cars."
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