Uber hires the Jeep Cherokee hackers

The hack of a Jeep Cherokee was the most significant car hacking story to break recently. Now the guys responsible will work for Uber.

Uber snatched up Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, the hackers who exposed a serious security vulnerability in Fiat Chrysler (FCA) vehicles, which resulted in the first ever recall for potential car hacking, on Friday, reports Reuters. An engineer at Uber's Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh announced on Twitter that Miller and Valasek would be joining him there, in a tweet.

This comes two days after the company announced a partnership with the University of Arizona to develop autonomous car tech Read more...