Digital Carjackers Show Off New Attacks!

Yikes, your car can be hacked in a VERY dangerous way!

YouTube Video of a Forbes Writer – “Stomping on the brakes of a 3,500-pound Ford Escape that refuses to stop — or even slow down — produces a unique feeling of anxiety. In this case it also produces a deep groaning sound, like an angry water buffalo bellowing somewhere under the SUV’s chassis. The more I pound the pedal, the louder the groan gets — along with the delighted cackling of the two hackers sitting behind me in the backseat.

Luckily, all of this is happening at less than 5 mph. So the Escape merely plows into a stand of 6-foot-high weeds growing in the abandoned parking lot of a South Bend, IN strip mall that Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek have chosen as the testing grounds for the day’s experiments…”