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Flaw In Kia's Web Portal Let Researchers Track, Hack Cars
SpzToid shares a report: Today, a group of independent security researchers revealed that they'd found a flaw in a web portal operated by the carmaker Kia that let the researchers reassign control of the Internet-connected features of most modern Kia vehicles -- dozens of models representing millio...
SpzToid shares a report: Today, a group of independent security researchers revealed that they'd found a flaw in a web portal operated by the carmaker Kia that let the researchers reassign control of the Internet-connected features of most modern Kia vehicles-- dozens of models representing millions of cars on the road -- from the smartphone of a car's owner to the hackers' own phone or computer. But Kia's patch is far from the end of the car industry's web-based security problems, the researchers say. And those bugs are just two among a slew of similar web-based vulnerabilities they've discovered within the last two years that have affected cars sold by Acura, Genesis, Honda, Hyundai, Infiniti, Toyota, and more.
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