Remotely start..someone else’s car!
Probably the heading for this post was tricky enough to make anyone read through the following passage. But the truth is that I was able to execute this feat, SUCCESSFULLY! I am not from the hard-core hacker community or a penetration tester who tries his best to break an application. I just had to open the App on my mobile, tap few screens and then viola, the German engine growls underneath the hood. I can Let’s get something straight here, I DID NOT – · Reverse engineer the mobile app and manipulate the internal workings · Execute a man-in-the middle attack to snoop in the commands that the App was sending to the car · Send a phishing email to the actual owner and track down the user credentials · Hack the car company’s datacenter to gather sensitive details Of course, the company in question is reputed enough to gain that trus...