4 • 645 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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0:00.0 | Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch. |
0:07.0 | It's a unit system. |
0:12.0 | I know this. |
0:14.0 | It's all the files of the whole park. |
0:17.0 | It tells her everything. |
0:19.0 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
0:21.8 | Eagle one. |
0:22.6 | The package is being delivered. |
0:26.3 | Hacking cars is a Hollywood trope. |
0:29.6 | But it's real. |
0:30.6 | And thanks to the Internet of Things, |
0:32.2 | sometimes you don't even need to hack the car directly. |
0:35.2 | A hacker that goes by the alias, L&M, |
0:37.4 | found a way to hack almost 30,000 accounts hacker that goes by the alias, L&M, |
0:42.3 | found a way to hack almost 30,000 accounts of people who use two GPS tracking apps. |
0:47.1 | By taking control of the accounts, the hacker not only accessed the user's personal information, |
0:49.6 | including names, emails, and home addresses, |
0:52.4 | but he also gained the ability to kill their engines. |
0:56.7 | The two GPS tracking apps are called ProTrack and ITrack. |
1:02.2 | They're made by two Chinese companies that not only sell physical internet-connected GPS tracking devices, |
1:04.6 | but also the apps to monitor the cars. |
1:09.8 | In other words, it's the internet of things inside a car with default passwords. |
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