[LINK] Carhacking instead of carjacking

[Jan Whitaker]

Forget carjacking, soon it will be carhacking

Angela Greiling Keane
Published: May 16, 2013 - 5:58AM

Washington: Rising cyber security risks to 
drivers as their cars become increasingly powered 
by and connected to computers have prompted the 
US auto-safety regulator to start a new office focusing on the threat.

"These interconnected electronics systems are 
creating opportunities to improve vehicle safety 
and reliability, but are also creating new and 
different safety and cyber security risks," David 
Strickland, head of the National Highway Traffic 
Safety Administration (NHTSA), said in testimony 
prepared for a US Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Wednesday.

A new office within the agency to research 
vehicle-electronics safety will look at risks to 
the systems within cars and those that 
communicate with other vehicles. NHTSA is 
conducting a pilot project in Ann Arbor, 
Michigan, of so-called talking-car technology intended to prevent crashes.

Senate Commerce Committee chairman Jay 
Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, said while 
he's excited about safety improvements through 
technology, he's concerned about new risks including cyber security.

"As our cars become more connected – to the 
internet, to wireless networks, with each other, 
and with our infrastructure – are they at risk of 
catastrophic cyber attacks?" Senator Rockefeller 
asked in his opening statement prepared for the hearing.

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Today's typical luxury car has more than 100 
million lines of computer code, while software 
and electronics account for 40 per cent of the 
car's cost and half of warranty claims, said John 
D. Lee, a professor at the University of 
Wisconsin-Madison's industrial and systems engineering department.

Mr Lee is also scheduled to testify at today's hearing in Washington.

Bloomberg

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