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Rent a luxury car and crack its transponder to steal it later

Researchers Roel Verdult and Baris Ege, revealed that popular cars, including Ferrari and Porsche, which use Megamos Crypto transponders can be easily stolen. Audi, Ferrari, Fiat, Cadillac, Volkswagen are just a few names automakers include in a list or two dozen companies that adopt the flawed components. Hackers can exploit the vulnerabilities to start the cars without needing to use the key, a great news for car thieves. The researchers tried to present their study at the 22nd USENIX Security Symposium in 2013, but they were prevented from doing so by Volkswagen.”]

Source: http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/39453/hacking/crack-car-transponder.html

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