Chrysler vehicles can be hacked

Sprint and FCA, now there is a pair of hacks if I ever saw one.

Grit dog wrote:
What r they gonna hack?
Make my horn blow when I turn on the heater or something?

From what I've read the hacker can gain access to almost all vehicle systems. These vehicles have optional self parking for both parallel and back in. This means the computer has access to steering, brakes and gas. These vehicles also had optional adaptive cruise control. This means sensors in every direction. The hacker could fool the adaptive cruise control sensors and allow the driver to get into an accident.

What about using the Chrysler product to hit another target? These are all Sprint IP addresses. Shouldn't be too hard to figure out. These could be malicious or just for fun hacks in the future.

While the demonstration was done on a Jeep, the "hack" would basically work on any Chrysler product with the same tech.
The concept follows for ANY vehicle where the ECU is connected to the consumer electronics, where the WiFi and Cellphone connections are.
The only way to ensure there is no way to "hack" the system is to not have the ECU connected to the CE, not even firewalled, air-gapped. No connection

You can go to the FCA website and enter your VIN to see if your vehicle is affected. My 2014 JGC was affected. I downloaded the patch to a thumb drive and uploaded the software to the vehicle by connecting the thumb drive to the Uconnect system.

If you can't do this yourself, take your vehicle to a dealer and it will be done for free.

Just like so many don't know or understand what "Fly by wire" means...

Many think their throttle/pedal is directly connected to the throttle butterfly shaft

PS...WLAN, wireless local are network...is just an older acronym for WiFi...the current acronym...

Albeit with newer IP (that Fidelity thing)

Anything and everything can be hacked and is....

What r they gonna hack?
Make my horn blow when I turn on the heater or something?

cameronpatentlaw wrote:
Johno2 is correct! Wifi is fundamentally a radio access technology. You can have Wifi connection but no access to the Internet. So one can connect a wifi transceiver to a car with a Wifi transceiver and then access the car's electronics if there is a pathway to do so, all without using what is generally known as the "internet". But when people refer to wifi, they do generally assume that the wifi access point does have a further connection to the Internet. cheers!

That's true but 99.9% of the time when people say WIFI they really mean a WLAN connection

Yup...just a method to connect wirelessly

Like my home WiFi network for the printer, copier, fax, storage, etc...sourced
on my server/workstation...that...then connects to the router, which has both
WiFi and direct CAT5 (ethernet) to the modem, which is then connected to the
Cable Company's fiberoptic line to the house...which is then routed to what
ever...TV/On-Demand/Internet/Etc...

Noodle this...with the 'new' to our trucks (been on lux cars for years) keyless
fobs...that is a wireless connection to the vehicle computer system. Could
be the mother board, but most likely a wireless transponder of some standard.

Maybe not an industry standard (IEEE), but wireless with some sort of
security overlay.

Best are base code with rotating numeric/alpha characters. Get enough of them
for 'that one' vehicle and you can crack the base code (or key for the
rest of the numbers/alpha's)

Anyone remember the humongo issue with digital picture frames made in China?

Loaded with worms, viruses, etc...that infected whatever you used to connect
and down load images into the picture frame memory...

Ditto potential for tuners, diagnostics and an after market gizmo that interconnects
with the vehicle network...

Johno2 is correct! Wifi is fundamentally a radio access technology. You can have Wifi connection but no access to the Internet. So one can connect a wifi transceiver to a car with a Wifi transceiver and then access the car's electronics if there is a pathway to do so, all without using what is generally known as the "internet". But when people refer to wifi, they do generally assume that the wifi access point does have a further connection to the Internet. cheers!