Popular Science | Researchers hack digital license plates, demonstrating way to evade tolls and cops
Article · Popular Science · Dec 16, 2024
Popular Science | Josep Pi Rodriguez, IOActive Principal Consultant, recently featured his discovery of a technique to ‘jailbreak’ digital license plates in this piece from Popular Science.
“… Cybersecurity researchers at from IOActive have demonstrated how a similar type of sleight of hand can potentially be performed in the real-world by hacking a popular brand of new digital driver’s license plates. By using a “fault injection” hardware attack, the researches have shown how a hacker could, hypothetically at least, essentially jailbreak a digital license display and replace the plate number with a custom message of the hacker’s choosing.”