hoverboard 5 Things You Didn’t Know Could Be Hacked

[SURbit]

Look for further, more abundant attacks in 2016

 

What do a car, a coffin, a skateboard and a rifle have in common?

In 2015 these unrelated items were unforeseeable and unlikely things that were hacked.

Hackers got bolder and more imaginative, even surpassing the startling takeover of Jeeps’ controls that was

revealed at the Black Hat convention in Vegas this summer.

From a remote location some 10 miles away, using a simple laptop, hackers unleashed an attack on Chrysler

vehicles that resulted in a recall of 1.4 million cars, and a lot of heartburn for the automaker!

Let’s see how these scenarios played out with the other elements, possibly ushering in a new level of

sophistication for determined hackers

 

The idea that technology improves the efficiency of just about everything applies also to the next item – rifles.

A Texas company, TrackingPoint, manufactures a device that employs electronic auto-aiming.

To enable it to work effectively, it utilizes Wi-Fi connectivity. This feature unfortunately renders the device liable

to be hacked from a simple mobile phone, redirecting the shooters aim to a different target.

Researcher Runa Sandvik demonstrated how aim can be thrown on to a different target one yard away at a

Def Con convention recently. “A successful attacker could cause the rifle to misbehave on every single shot

without the shooter knowing how or why,” Sandvik told MarketWatch.

The good news is that a hacker cannot fire the weapon remotely.

 

For those eschewing the novelty of the hoverboard and stay grounded with the skateboard, the experience can

be enhanced by electronics which smoothens the ride – until it doesn’t, and throws you from the board!

Two researchers developed a hack they dubbed “FacePlant,” which gave them total control over digital

skateboards by manipulating the Bluetooth connection, and which allowed them to stop it, alter its course or

kibosh its brakes. Those that use the boards regularly for long commutes present a ready and vulnerable target

for hackers.

 

Whoever said that the only things that are certain are death and taxes (editors note: it was Benjamin Franklin)

might want to alter the adage after hearing about the next odd hack.

Chris Rock, chief executive officer and founder of the security company Kustodian, showed why, in a presentation

at Def Con.

Using information found online, anyone can complete state electronic death records that can literally knock the

life out of someone making them deceased – if only on paper and only temporarily.

But in contemplating the complications this might cause, even temporary,  this be might be too long.

Why would you exploit a situation like this? One reason might be simple revenge against an ex- ex-boss

or ex-lover. But more sinister applications come to mind, such as insurance fraud, or draining a relative’s estate.

In any case, it clearly demonstrates that when it comes to hacks, nothing is off-limits.

 

I’ll end this piece with an item that raised everyone’s consciousness about the danger of attacks on everyday

items – cars.

As we’ve learned, the more cars are computerized, the more vulnerable to hacks they become.

Being an electric car company, Tesla has more to lose than other automakers, and, conversely, more to gain by

thwarting hackers. A computer security researcher at San Francisco-based Lookout, set out to see if Tesla had

learned anything from prior industry attacks and had taken steps to protect its franchise.

While acknowledging that Tesla was ahead of its industry counterparts in the security game, he found several

vulnerabilities, and was able to remotely open and close trunks, lock and unlock doors, and stop a Tesla car

(depending on what speed it was being driven.)

On the bright side, Tesla didn’t launch a lengthy and cumbersome recall a la Fiat Chrysler, but instead managed

to correct the flaws by supplying patches to customers, thus resolving the problem in a matter of weeks.

 

Hacks like I’ve described are more than nuisances when they affect ordinary things that can alter life and limb.

Though it is good to know that in virtually every case a remedy for the attack exists or will be developed and

applied, Runa Sandvik opined,

“The short version here is that you cannot underestimate a motivated attacker.”

 

SOURCE:

https://www.bestvpn.com/blog/35892/5-things-you-didnt-know-could-be-hacked/

[Holmes]

If its connected to the internet in some way shape or form it can be hacked disconnected from the internet using wifi and ethernet CATFIVEe technically it can be hacked using radio waves or sound waves with no internet access just like a cell phone with it shut off it can be hacked traced only way to prevent this is to take the battery out.   the IoT is makingitems that were not as easily hackable or couldnt be hacked because like a coffin a smart coffin of course a coffin with no electronics no smart coffin a regular coffin of course not.

[straycat19]

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like a cell phone with it shut off it can be hacked traced only way to prevent this is to take the battery out

 

You have been reading too much of the bullshit on the internet that is designed to scare people.  You can't trace or track my cell phone even with the battery in and turned on but I'm not going to tell you how that is prevented.  It is so simple most people won't even think of it or have the technical knowledge that would put them on the right path.  The article mentions Chrysler and Tesla but don't even mention the two most hackable vehicle brands on the road, Ford and Toyota.

[Future Soldier]

29 minutes ago, straycat19 said:

 

You have been reading too much of the bullshit on the internet that is designed to scare people.  You can't trace or track my cell phone even with the battery in and turned on but I'm not going to tell you how that is prevented.  It is so simple most people won't even think of it or have the technical knowledge that would put them on the right path.  The article mentions Chrysler and Tesla but don't even mention the two most hackable vehicle brands on the road, Ford and Toyota.

go flying mode yaay

[CODYQX4]

44 minutes ago, straycat19 said:

 

You have been reading too much of the bullshit on the internet that is designed to scare people.  You can't trace or track my cell phone even with the battery in and turned on but I'm not going to tell you how that is prevented.  It is so simple most people won't even think of it or have the technical knowledge that would put them on the right path.  The article mentions Chrysler and Tesla but don't even mention the two most hackable vehicle brands on the road, Ford and Toyota.

Yet Apple patented something called Fake Off, whereas turning off the phone doesn't really turn it off.

 

Since you can't remove the battery in most non garbage phones anymore, and increasingly the high end Android phones people loved for SD Cards and Spare Batteries remove those features, only way out is a truly dead battery.

 

Unless someone makes a Faraday Cage case (which I think someone may have tried to Kickstarter one awhile back), your phone could simply report it has less power or is dead and it is still on.

[Holmes]

Anything can be hacked including yours stray you underestimate the hackers around the world you may have the software skills to put your cell phone in hardened meaning making it darn near impossible to hack Im sure someone can you cant tell me something is unhackkable well when it goes to cell phones.  WHat you mean is listening to hollywood to much alot of movies say you have to take the battery out to not be traced and I agree thats not totally accurate I like to keep a open mind.

[DKT27]

9 hours ago, straycat19 said:

 

You have been reading too much of the bullshit on the internet that is designed to scare people.  You can't trace or track my cell phone even with the battery in and turned on but I'm not going to tell you how that is prevented.  It is so simple most people won't even think of it or have the technical knowledge that would put them on the right path.

 

While I personally cannot confirm either, what I can mention is that it's quite possible to track which signal tower you are connected to, hence, making it possible to trace you. I'm not talking about authorities here.

 

Another thing there might be is that radio frequency can be played with to make your phone connect to things not intended to, similar might be to make your phone ring without your number, though, I do not know if hackers have reached that level or so.

[Holmes]

If a phone is turned off they can trace the last location the phone was at not everything on the internet is bullsh*t you just got to learn how to tell the bullsh*t from the facts.

[davmil]

1 hour ago, Holmes said:

If a phone is turned off they can trace the last location the phone was at not everything on the internet is bullsh*t you just got to learn how to tell the bullsh*t from the facts.

Believe nothing you hear/see on the internet & only 1/2 of what you see in real life.

[SURbit]

My interests is with the-

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Using information found online, anyone can complete state electronic death records that can literally knock the

life out of someone making them deceased – if only on paper and only temporarily.

Obituary Notice

Not only online - here in town when a person dies it's usually written up in the newspapers as well,

naming surviving members of the family - with this information of the surviving members

(survived by his wife and 2 sons and a daughter), from the write up you have the man's last name

as well as his address - this also shortens the lead to the surviving members first names which only

opens the abuse door wider.

The time and place of the funeral is given and, in town here a couple of times the families homes have

been robbed during the burial ceremonies. 

 

Then if only in a case of not deceased situation of a revenge type, all this information is still in print in

the newspapers for any evil doers to have and possible act on.

 

There should be a two step process or multiple safe guards set in place, at a minimum a law for wrongful

filing to inflect malice intent. 

 

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But in contemplating the complications this might cause, even temporary,  this be might be too long.

Why would you exploit a situation like this? One reason might be simple revenge against an ex, ex-boss

or ex-lover. But more sinister applications come to mind, such as insurance fraud, or draining a relative’s estate.

 

If one keeps all their money in one bank or basically lives payday to payday this would be detrimental no matter

how temporary in length.

 

I've herd stories of collection agencies doing these things of tow trucks, locksmiths, pizza delivery, plumbers

called out to the homes of their debtors trying to collect on, as harassment to pay up.

So I could see this happening here to as well from them in collecting a debt.

 

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Believe nothing you hear/see on the internet/TV & only 1/2 of what you see in real life.