A new study shows yet another danger to increasingly networked vehicles. Researchers analyzed small, third-party devices that are sometimes plugged into a car’s dashboard. They found a variety of security vulnerabilities which allowed them in a real-world demonstration to cause a Corvette to suddenly brake by sending a text message to the TCU, which then accessed the CAN bus. The TCU is also reachable over mobile networks if an attacker knows its phone number. The research was presented at the 24th USIX Security SymENC in San Diego.”]