The World’s Most Hackable Cars by Kelly Jackson Higgins.
From the post:
If you drive a 2014 Jeep Cherokee, a 2014 Infiniti Q50, or a 2015 Escalade, your car not only has state-of-the-art network-connected functions and automated features, but it’s also the most likely to get hacked.
That’s what renowned researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek concluded in their newest study of vulnerabilities in modern automobiles, which they will present Wednesday at Black Hat USA in Las Vegas. The researchers focused on the potential for remote attacks, where a nefarious hacker could access the car’s network from afar — breaking into its wireless-enabled radio, for instance, and issuing commands to the car’s steering or other automated driving feature.
Since the Dog Days of summer have arrived (by most ancient accounts), this looked like interesting news and possibly a fun summer activity.
In doing some background research, I noticed that http://www.cars.com does not list the hackability of the 2014 Jeep Cherokee, 2014 Infiniti Q50, or 2015 Escalade as a “What We Don’t Like” in their expert review.
If you are collating information about cars I would definitely list “[remote] issuing commands to the car’s steering or other automated driving feature” as a “don’t like.”
I have checked with a couple of car owner mailiing list houses and 2014 owner lists aren’t available, yet. Check back end of this year or early next.