Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Hacking Traffic Lights Is Apparently Really Easy


It is not the headline that bothered me.

What shocked me is what makes it easy

The Michigan team identified three main weaknesses in traffic control systems in the U.S.: 
  1. use of un-encrypted wireless communication signals 
  2. default usernames and passwords, 
  3. use of a traffic controller—the machine that interprets sensor data and controls lights and walk signs, etc.—that is vulnerable to known hacks.



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