Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Would you like to play a game of global thermonuclear war? That was the question in the movie “WarGames,” in which Matthew Broderick hacks into a military supercomputer and (spoiler alert!) nearly triggers Armageddon. The movie debuted in 1983. Decades later, Broderick is older and paunchier, and the threat of hacking is no longer a fantastical conceit. As more of our lives are run by computers, new frontiers continue to open to hackers. So it should surprise virtually no one that cars, which are becoming more computerized every year, are turning into an ever juicier target. Automotive hacking is not a new phenomenon, but until recently it was primarily achieved through physically plugging into a car’s diagnostic port. As automakers breathlessly rush to add Internet connectivity and smartphone vehicle control apps to lure tech-savvy buyers, cars are becoming increasingly vulnerable. As many as 82.5 million vehicles are expected to be hooked up to the Internet by 2022, according to estimates by IHS Automotive. That’s a target-rich environment. It’s not like we haven’t been warned. “We find the existence of practically exploitable vulnerabilities that permit arbitrary automotive control without requiring direct physical access,” wrote researchers with the University of California, San […]
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