Automakers hustle to protect cars from hackers - Christian Science Monitor
The logo of Jeep is seen on a steering wheel of the 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee on a car dealership in New Jersey, in this July 24, 2015 file photo. could be vulnerable to the same kind of hacking that led Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to recall a record 1. 4 million vehicles on July 24. When researchers at two West Coast universities took control of a General Motors car through cellular and... Five years later, two friendly hackers sitting on a living room couch used a laptop computer to commandeer a Jeep from afar over the Internet, demonstrating an even scarier vulnerability. "Cars don't seem to be any more secure than when the university guys did it," says Charlie Miller, a security expert at Twitter who, along with well-known hacker and security consultant Chris Valasek, engineered the attack on the Jeep Cherokee. Fiat Chrysler, the maker of Jeeps, is now conducting the first recall to patch a cybersecurity problem, covering 1. 4 million Jeeps. And experts and lawmakers are warning the auto industry and regulators to move faster to plug holes created by the dozens of new computers and the growing number of Internet connections in today's automobiles. Source: www.csmonitor.com
