Oh, sure. Now we're going to need firewalls and anti-virus in our cars!
Amplify’d from www.boingboing.net
Security researches at UCSD and UWash have been looking at advanced ways of making mischief with computerized automotive systems, from messing with Bluetooth to inserting malware into the diagnostic tools. The most baroque and interesting attack they've demonstrated, though, uses a malformed MP3 that exploits a bug in the sound system (I'm assuming some sort of buffer overflow). Once they're in, the researchers have been able to control the car's locks, speedometer, brakes and engine.
See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/bu7k0
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