{"id":259,"date":"2005-01-27T17:39:36","date_gmt":"2005-01-27T17:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=259"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"as-usual-truth-is-stranger-than-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"As Usual, Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

My colleague Stuart Kwan, who perfectly embodies the union of car freak and identity geek, sent me to this mind-boggling “story of how a virus was transmitted from an infected mobile phone to the OS of a Lexus car, via Bluetooth. A whole new meaning to the word contagious.”<\/font><\/p>\n

The story<\/a>, by David Quainton in SC Magazine<\/a>, begins this way:<\/p>\n

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Lexus cars may be vulnerable to viruses that infect them via mobile phones. Landcruiser 100 models LX470 and LS430 have been discovered with infected operating systems that transfer within a range of 15 feet. <\/p>\n

“If infected mobile devices are scary, just thinking about an infected onboard computer..,” said Eugene Kaspersky, head of anti-virus research at Russian firm Kaspersky. “We do know that car manufacturers are integrating existing operating systems into their onboard computers (take the Fiat and Microsoft deal, for instance).”<\/p>\n

It is understood the virus could affect the navigation system of the Lexus models, it transfers onto them via a Bluetooth mobile phone connection. It is still unclear which operating system the cars in question use.<\/p>\n

“At this stage it's still early but it just goes to show that technology has consequences,” said David Emm, senior technology consultant at Kaspersky. “It's scary stuff.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It is the cross-technology nature of this exploit which blows the mind. The writing is on the wall. We need to come together as an industry and act in a concerted way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My colleague Stuart Kwan, who perfectly embodies the union of car freak and identity geek, sent me to this mind-boggling “story of how a virus was transmitted from an infected mobile phone to the OS of a Lexus car, via Bluetooth. A whole new meaning to the word contagious.” The story, by David Quainton in … Continue reading As Usual, Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}