According to the indictment, the Hooligans staked out vehicles days before the thefts to obtain their vehicle identification numbers. With these numbers in hand, the suspects were able to get details to create duplicate car keys as well as the codes needed to program the keys, linking them to the Jeep Wranglers. After all, rightful car owners would need that information to create new keys if they were locked out, Fisher said. The researchers could disengage the Jeep’s brakes, cause the transmission to malfunction, and, at lower speeds, kill the engine altogether. “We don’t do a very good job accounting for the cost of bad security,” Fisher said.

Source: National Post June 02, 2017 15:00 UTC