divendres, 26 de febrer del 2016

Nissan disables Leaf app after car hack risk revealed online

Nissan has suspended the functions of an app that could have been used to hack its Leaf electric cars. It has been revealed an attacker could run down the battery of a target's car and see data about its recent journeys. The security researcher who had found it believes the company should have taken the step earlier.

Mr Hunt discovered that anyone could control air conditioning systems of a Leaf because the car’s companion app was not configured to verify the owner’s identity; it only required the vehicle identification number, relatively easy to see.

Mr Hunt suggested that it would not threaten people’s lives, but after first telling Nissan about the problem he felt the company should have suspended the app at an earlier point. A day later, Nissan disabled the service.
"We're looking forward to launching updated versions of our apps very soon."



Seen: technology really provides problems. How could anyone think about hacking a car and taking energy off it? Because we know that computers, phones and stuff like this can be hacked but who could think about a car? The new world is providing us new big problems besides new tools.

Electric cars are cool talking about pollution, but maybe it’s so soon to try new things if we don’ even know how to control what we already have. 

Vocabulary: flaw, flagged, expeditious

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