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Hacker Can Monitor Cars And Kill Their Engines

 
Wed, 04/24/2019 - 2:01pm

A hacker broke into thousands of accounts belonging to users of two GPS tracker apps, giving him the ability to monitor the locations of tens of thousands of vehicles and even turn off the engines for some of them while they were in motion.

By reverse engineering ProTrack and iTrack’s Android apps, L&M said he realized that all customers are given a default password of 123456 when they sign up.

more below:
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zmpx4x/hacker-mon...

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Thu, 04/25/2019 - 1:02pm

Very interesting

Soon all vehicles will be death traps in waiting. thats why I don't like the auto brakes coming out now, BG pulls in front of you and you are Toast. Modern Inventions are nice but need Operator Overrides, say your daughter coming home from college at night and alone, easy pickings!!

Fri, 04/26/2019 - 12:05pm

Default password

A big problem is the default password. The user is at fault for not changing the password. The GPS tracker company is at fault for not forcing a password change. If the passwords had been changed there would not be an issue in this case.
A consumer affairs tv show in Canada recently found folks had security cameras setup. That they bought from amazon. That anyone could log into and watch on the internet. Well that's real creepy. Again the problem was the default password was used and not changed.
People need to take some responsibility for there own security.

Wed, 05/01/2019 - 3:19am

Default Back Doors are very common

Netgear has a back door on their Router/Modems, but it comes in handy if you forget or jumble up your password. Just hit the Reset and it will go back to the default

Wed, 05/01/2019 - 9:19am

What does the reset do?

windwalker wrote:

Netgear has a back door on their Router/Modems, but it comes in handy if you forget or jumble up your password. Just hit the Reset and it will go back to the default

Does it reset the password or factory default the unit? Either way, you need to be physically on site to do this and it is intrusive. No stealth involved at all here. Not quite the same.

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