DETROIT – Modern cars are computers on wheels, meaning hostile hackers can violate your car’s software and do what they want to it a lot easier than you might think.
Moshe Shlisel knows exactly how someone can hack your car. Fortunately, he’s one of the good guys. His company specializes in cybersecurity. His team looks for vulnerabilities in cars to pinpoint the risks and then help to guard against them.
In his experience, nearly all modern cars on the road today are extremely vulnerable to being hacked. And, it is happening in the real world, though it gets minimal attention and society is largely naïve about how many car hacks and other industrial hacks have occurred, Shlisel said.
In 2019, for example, the U.S. Army’s Stryker armored vehicles were hacked, compromising some of their systems, according to reports in The Drive and ArmyTimes.
To read more, click on https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2021/08/24/car-hack-vehicle-protection-cybersecurity/8218898002/
