Canada Wants to Hack Your Car
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 10/13/2015 05:49 AM
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The Canadian Military research branch is looking for hackers to develop exploits for motor vehicles and come up with defenses against cyberattacks.
DRDC, the military’s cutting-edge research agency, said their need is twofold: they have to understand all the different ways a car can be hacked, and they need to develop countermeasures against those hacks.
The Canadian military pointed to the huge amount of data, 25GB per hour distributed internally through a car, the 100 computers found in a modern vehicle and the wired and wireless communication interfaces as reasons cars are so vulnerable.
It is not very far fetched to think that a car could be hacked using the WiFi connection, but two researchers earlier this year were able to control a Jeep Cherokee’s dashboard functions, transmission — even steering and breaks — by exploiting a vulnerability in the vehicle’s entertainment system.
Source: The Star
DRDC, the military’s cutting-edge research agency, said their need is twofold: they have to understand all the different ways a car can be hacked, and they need to develop countermeasures against those hacks.
The Canadian military pointed to the huge amount of data, 25GB per hour distributed internally through a car, the 100 computers found in a modern vehicle and the wired and wireless communication interfaces as reasons cars are so vulnerable.
It is not very far fetched to think that a car could be hacked using the WiFi connection, but two researchers earlier this year were able to control a Jeep Cherokee’s dashboard functions, transmission — even steering and breaks — by exploiting a vulnerability in the vehicle’s entertainment system.
Source: The Star
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