Forbes reports on the work of two security experts who have demonstrated how they can hack into an automobile’s computer network to control essential functions, including shutting off the brakes. Charlie Miller, a security engineer at Twitter, and Chris Valasek, an intelligence security director at IOActive, have received a grant from the Pentagon to discover security vulnerabilities in automobiles. “When you lose faith that a car will do what you tell it to do,” Miller said, “it really changes your whole view of how the thing works.” Miller and Valasek plan to share their finding at next month’s Defcon hacker meeting in Las Vegas. A representative from Toyota said the real concern isn’t physically hacking into a car, as the duo have done, but wirelessly hacking into a car. “We believe our systems are robust and secure,” the representative said.
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