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Truck-to-truck worm could infect entire US fleet (www.theregister.com)

submitted 7 months ago by kid@sh.itjust.works to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 36 points 7 months ago

Wait… you’re telling me that these devices are connected directly to the CAN bus and also have default root passwords? Did nobody involved in this ever stop and think it might possibly be a bad idea??

This brings a new meaning to the old phrase “war driving”