Traffic lights to manipulate, it can be relatively easy

Posted on 01-05-2014 at 15:59 by bart_m – 15 Comments”

According to Cesar Cerrudo can you do with 100 dollars to hardware simple traffic lights, to take over and operate.

The Argentine researcher came up with the idea by the film die Hard 4.0. In the movie, the terrorists, the challenge for John McClane by various traffic lights in their favor to manipulate.

Cerrudo thought that I can also use and went to work. He made at the hack the use of different sensors that the traffic ‘read’. These indicate that the lights whether they are green, orange or red have to jump (well, at least in our country).

The sending of this data proved to be very vulnerable. Cerrudo as a result, the systems take over and made use of a simple ‘exploit’ (software to create a system to manipulate) on cheap hardware. Read more about it on Apparata.nl.