Your car's computer system can be compromised with off the shelf parts

Unless there's an electric vehicle parked in your driveway, you probably don't think of your car in a computer - but a pair of Spanish security researchers sure do. In preparation for next month's Black Hat Asia security conference in Singapore, Javier Vazquez-Vidal and Alberto Garcia Illera have assembled a small electronic device that can leave a vehicle's computer system open to attack. "It can take five minutes or less to hook up and then walk away," Vidal says.

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