Stefan Mileschin

Hitler’s favourite car company, VW, is in hot water over its electronic key which has a security vulnerably which makes it easy for hackers to open the car doors.

According to Wired, security researchers found they can use software defined radio (SDR) to remotely unlock hundreds of millions of cars.

Led by Flavio Garcia at the University of Birmingham in the UK, the group of hackers reverse-engineered an undisclosed Volkswagen component to extract a cryptographic key value that is common to many of the company’s vehicles.

When combined with the unique value encoded on an individual vehicle’s remote key fob—obtained with a little electronic eavesdropping, say—you have a functional clone that will lock or unlock that car. VW has apparently acknowledged the vulnerability and has changed some of the numbering on new parts.

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