But will it run ‘Doom’?
Hacking for a good cause: at the Pwn2Own competitions, cybersecurity experts gather to test IT devices, identify security vulnerabilities, and subsequently provide manufacturers with the information needed to close these gaps. The organiser of this high-stakes, prize-money event is Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative.
At the latest automotive-focused edition in Japan, participants uncovered numerous entry points for hackers. In total, they exposed 76 so-called zero-day security vulnerabilities. A blog post by the organiser provides further details on the participants and their results.
However, several hacking attempts stood out: the team awarded the highest prize money successfully compromised the ChargePoint Home Flex (CPH50-K) charging station, while another team combined two security vulnerabilities to infiltrate Tesla’s infotainment system. Additionally, the hack of an Alpitronic Hypercharger HYC50 garnered attention, as the security experts accessed it to play the aforementioned first-person shooter.
It has been a popular pastime in the modding scene to install the video game Doom on unlikely devices for some time, for example, utilizing refrigerators or coffee makers to demonstrate their technical prowess. A charging station is certainly technically advanced enough to run a game from 1993, the true achievement here is the circumvention of the safety mechanisms in place to prevent the hardware being used to run foreign software.
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