Two researchers remotely took over a Jeep, through its internet-connected radio, while a Wired journalist drove it on a highway. Wipers, radio, then the transmission. They killed the engine from a couch ten miles away. Chrysler recalled 1.4 million vehicles, the first mass automotive recall for a software vulnerability. The IoT chickens are coming home and they weigh two tons and drive 70mph. Every device is a computer now, every computer is a target, and the auto industry just learned patch management with the whole world watching. (The fix ships on a USB stick mailed to owners. A USB stick! Mailed!)
Windows 10 launched free for a billion-ish devices. Satya’s “Windows as a service” era begins, and the Start Menu is back, having learned what customers scream about.
Also unfolding grimly: hackers claim they’ve breached Ashley Madison, the affair-dating site, and threaten to dump everything. Thirty-seven million users. This one’s going to get ugly in a way tech stories usually don’t.
TIL: CAN bus, the internal network where a car’s components trust each other completely, because why wouldn’t they? “Perimeter security” assumptions in a world where the perimeter has an LTE modem. Segment. Everything. Always.