Highly connected network makes the risk of self-driving vehicles rise sharply

Automakers develop self-driving vehicles, while reducing human-made road accidents, but increasing the risk of hackers cyberattacks through high-networking characteristics. Experts call on self-driving manufacturers to find ways to prevent cars from being externally invaded.

The Financial Times (FT) reports that cars must be able to navigate smoothly and automatically, and must be connected to many facilities, including road infrastructure such as traffic lights. David Barzilai, co-founder of Karamba Security, a car cyber security system company, said that the biggest risk of the driving system was that the data center lost data, the people in the car lost their lives, and the risks were higher than ever.

Self-driving Renovo commercial chief Damien Scott said that although non-networked vehicles have also been murdered, the cost of attack is high, and usually requires special instruments and physical connections, but the emergence of mobile networks has changed everything since then, malicious hackers It is easy to find loopholes, change the direction of the car or control the throttle, brakes, etc. The design of the self-driving car must be carried out under the premise of "nothing to be smashed".

Karamba Security's "intrusion prevenTIon" installs verification software in the car's source code, allowing the car to identify the authenticity of the command, like the car's anti-theft bell; the UK's independent agency, the Law Commission, has attacked the malicious network. Driving research.

Highly connected network makes the risk of self-driving vehicles rise sharply

For automakers who are used to mechanical problems such as engines, designing a car based on potential cyberattacks will need to be transformed into a different culture. Technology companies such as Google are experts in this area, but auto companies are not So they have to catch up.

Denis Cosgrove, head of commercial transportation at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, agrees that the security of traditional engineering is well resolved, but defending against cyber attacks requires a completely different mentality because the problem to be dealt with is the person who wants to destroy the system.

But Craig Smith, director of research at Rapid Analysis, a network analysis organization, is also the author of The Car Hacker's Handbook. He believes that the attacking speed of a fully-automobile car is more difficult than the world generally imagines.

Smith said that today's cars are sensors that detect surrounding activity, and hackers can break into these sensors and "spoof" someone in front of the sensor, but the sensors of fully automated cars constantly communicate with each other and make it harder for hackers. It’s safer to drive a car than a human being, and it’s a bit of a worry for hackers to hijack a car.

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