ZeroNights hacking conference featured a guide to hijacking a plane, a car, or kidnapping a child

On November 19 and 20, the international ZeroNights conference, organized by ERPScan, was held in Moscow, where security researchers shared their news about the security issues of computers and everything related to them. Digital technologies are far from just personals computers now, and electronics are used virtually everywhere, so the attention of researchers and cybercriminals alike has been drawn to the devices and systems which are most closely connected with people’s lives, their safety and well-being. A certain symbol for the breakout of such research (although it had existed before, of course) is the Stuxnet worm, which infects industrial systems, and the latest research of attacks on insulin probes and cardiostimulators. The attacks that were presented at ZeroNights are not as scary but a lot more realistic. In the course of their research of embedded devices security, ERPScan analysts have studied the tracking and location tools called GPS trackers, which....