Cars with Internet bring Internet related risks to cars - Are the car manufacturers ready for the challenge?

Many parts of cars — like the accelerator pedal or the turn signal — are designed to feel mechanical despite being run by tiny microprocessors that are connected through a network within the vehicle. Even so, vehicle software security hasn't really been a concern because cars have always been isolated and self-contained entities

Now that they connect to the Internet, they expose a new attack surface


Autonomous driving isn't limited to making knowledge workers' windshield time more productive. Logistics companies, for example, will benefit tremendously from autonomous vehicles, but imagine an attacker compromising and shutting down those vehicles: the results would be disastrous not only to the logistics company but to all of the businesses that rely on them as a vendor

https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint/connected-cars-pose-new-security-challenges/a/d-id/1331166?_mc=sm_dr&hootPostID=55d0e82932ac4cae8ebf0aee77f0657e