The risk was on display earlier this year when teams of elite hackers gathered in Tokyo during the Automotive World conference to break into Tesla Inc cars for prize money. — Bloomberg
Automakers should do more to increase the safety of vehicles whose software can be updated over the air, according to a cybersecurity expert, because current technology leaves cars vulnerable to being manipulated without an owner’s knowledge.
In the connected cars of today, virtually all communication between a driver’s smartphone and their vehicle takes place over the Internet via the cloud for functions as basic as starting the engine remotely and turning on the air conditioning. Sometimes it’s a user sending a command to the car, and sometimes it’s the manufacturer sending a request for the car’s software to be updated.
