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More than a hundred car owners Texas in Austin have found their cars "dead" or randomly pipikayuschimi horn, according to the American magazine «Wired». The reason was a successful hacker attacks on online dealership service. US dealers use online system immobilizer Webtech Plus; the program monitors the payments on the loan for the car, and if the money is not received on time the dealer does not give the driver to start the engine.
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The culprit turned out to be twenty Omar Ramos-Lopez, who last month turnuli of dealerships in connection with the staff reduction. Omar has gained access to the admin account on the system, first he attacked cars only specific buyers, whose names are specifically looking for. Then he discovered that he could make a thousand car owners a tough day. Alphabetically Omar embarked on its plan.
As a result, a large number of people in the morning late for work, client support center calls deluged with complaints or refuse to have cars constantly pipikayuschie. Dealer initially did not even realize what was going on, the staff believed that they had encountered a technical problem.
Credit immobilizers used in the United States for about 10 years. Under the dashboard mounted ignition controller that is connected by radio to a central server a dealer, the latter can either lock the ignition or turn on the horn to remind - it's time to pay the bills.
Jeremy Norton, an administrator "hacked" Omar system, believes that the guy just wanted poprikalyvatsya and obviously did not understand what really does.
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The culprit turned out to be twenty Omar Ramos-Lopez, who last month turnuli of dealerships in connection with the staff reduction. Omar has gained access to the admin account on the system, first he attacked cars only specific buyers, whose names are specifically looking for. Then he discovered that he could make a thousand car owners a tough day. Alphabetically Omar embarked on its plan.
As a result, a large number of people in the morning late for work, client support center calls deluged with complaints or refuse to have cars constantly pipikayuschie. Dealer initially did not even realize what was going on, the staff believed that they had encountered a technical problem.
Credit immobilizers used in the United States for about 10 years. Under the dashboard mounted ignition controller that is connected by radio to a central server a dealer, the latter can either lock the ignition or turn on the horn to remind - it's time to pay the bills.
Jeremy Norton, an administrator "hacked" Omar system, believes that the guy just wanted poprikalyvatsya and obviously did not understand what really does.
taken: news.drom.ru
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