A year ago, car-security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek must have driven Fiat Chrysler into fits: they wirelessly took control of a Jeep Cherokee from 10 miles away, including its brakes, accelerator, radio, horn and windshield wipers. Fiat Chrysler went on to say that 10 of its vehicles were vulnerable to the hack, which had been carried out via a cellular network that leveraged the vehicles’ UConnect entertainment system. The researchers’ demo led to the recall of a whopping 1.4 million vehicles. Now, a year later, Fiat has grabbed the steering wheel on this whole find-vulnerabilities, steer-a-car-into-a-ditch endeavor.
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: Naked Security