'White hat' Jonathan Brossard warns cars can be hacked on the road

You are driving your car when suddenly you discover you are no longer in control. Somebody has hacked into your vehicle's on-board computer and taken over.

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'White hat' Jonathan Brossard warns cars can be hacked on the road Art-836455870-620x349

If this sounds like a Hollywood plot or a Top Gear stunt, you are wrong. It can actually be done and Sydney hacker Jonathan Brossard knows how to do it.

The threat from hackers has been in the news recently, with eBay telling 145 million subscribers to change their passwords after a cyber attack and reports of Apple devices being hijacked last week.

Mr Brossard is a ''white hat'' hacker, one of the public defenders whose job is to preserve the integrity of information systems from the attention of the ''black hats''.

The security research engineer does not know of a car that has been hacked on the road but says his company does it for vehicle manufacturers in Europe.

The only way to verify that a car is not subject to cyber attack is to try to break it, fix it and try to break it again, he said.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/white-hat-jonathan-brossard-warns-cars-can-be-hacked-on-the-road-20140531-39b0i.html

'White hat' Jonathan Brossard warns cars can be hacked on the road

'White hat' Jonathan Brossard warns cars can be hacked on the road

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