What if the next large-scale hack involved your vehicle instead of your security camera?

But my vehicle doesn’t connect to the internet….Are you sure? Statista estimates 40% of vehicles connect to the internet as of 2019 in the US (that’s 2 out of every 5 vehicles capable of accessing the internet!), and this is expected to rise to 74% (3 out of 4 vehicles) by 2023.

Even if you are not using in-car wifi, you might be using an entertainment system, or your car might be updating apple car play software. All of these need the internet. And even if you are not actively using these features, unless the car manufacturer or chip manufacturer took the ‘necessary’ precautions (we will get to multiple reasons of why that is just not the case, and why necessary is in quotes), you are at risk!

Navigating around hacked vehicles in traffic illustrates the problem that cyber connected vehicles are embedded in a physical world, and can cause physical harm.

I’ve broadly heard 2 opinions on this: 1) Yes, but this is all hearsay 2) I’ve been convinced, and you’ve strengthened my convictions of never getting behind an internet connected car. Both of these are not right or useful in my opinion. In the first case, this is just not true. Read below for a short history on connected vehicle hacking:

It all started in 2010. Atleast that’s as far back as I’ll go for this article, and it’s a good point to start. A group of researchers from UW and UCSD posed an interesting problem: for 80 years or so, automobiles have…