Car hackers
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The document discusses the rising threat of car hackers who can remotely manipulate vehicles via their onboard computers, posing significant safety risks. It highlights the rapid growth of connected devices and the challenges faced by the automotive industry and government in addressing these security vulnerabilities. Despite efforts to improve vehicle security, the ever-evolving capabilities of hackers often leave them one step behind.
Car hackers
- 1. Car Hackers
- 2. Would the term "car hackers" come to mind if your car would not start.
- 3. What if you were actually driving down the road and suddenly your streering wheel turned, your brakes didn't work or your engine simply shut down.
- 4. Would the term "car hackers" come to mind in that situation.
- 5. For most of us the answer is probably not.
- 6. But that may be changing quickly.
- 7. In the early 1990's the World Wide Web began to connect millions of us to the new and thrilling online universe.
- 8. It was not until a few years later that we began to hear warnings about the dangers of cyber attacks and viruses and the problems they could cause.
- 9. Well now those dangers not only lurk on our computers sitting on our desks, but also within the computers installed into our vehicles.
- 10. Car Hackers Lurk
- 11. These hackers, using just the right series of computer commands, can now hack into vehicles anywhere, at any time, whether they are parked of driving down the freeway at 60 MPH.
- 12. We now live a world that many have come to call the "Internet of Things," meaning that we are all connected and wired into a sometimes lawless, borderless, and in many cases, an insecure online world.
- 13. And just how big is this world? In 2010 it was estimated that they were roughly 2 billion devices connected in some form to the Internet.
- 14. By 2020 that number is expected to grow to an estimated 25 billion.
- 15. This speed of growth in size, coupled with the inherent insecurity of the Internet itself, makes it almost impossible for effective security systems and measures to keep pace.
- 16. This means that currently existing vulnerabilities are simply built into the constantly expanding connected world we live in.
- 17. When it comes to the cars we drive, even if a vehicle could be designed that was safe from car hackers and their abilities as they exist today, that vehicle would not be available for sale in a dealership showroom until 2018.
- 18. In essence, it would already be three years behind the ever growing abilities of these hackers.
- 19. Can We Keep Up With Car Hackers
- 20. The car industry and governmental agencies alike are moving as fast as possible to address this issue, but each admits that they are playing catch up and truth be told, don't ever really know how far they are behind in the first place.
- 21. I won a classic car that was built in 1970.
- 22. Its mechanical design is simple compared to that of today's vehicles.
- 23. It also does not have a computer built into it.
- 24. It is not only cool as can be, it is also impervious to anything that car hackers can attempt to throw at it.