Nowadays, autopilot has become a trend. It will bring us more cool experiences, safer roads and smoother traffic. However, with the acceleration of autopilot, we have overlooked one problem: car network security. .
In fact, as early as two years ago, the FBI issued warnings that lawbreakers may use autopilot as a weapon of destruction. Now, security experts are worried that the FBI's warning is becoming a reality and terrorist organizations such as ISIS are very likely to use auto-driving cars to make car bombs.
Recently, the Global Automotive Cyber ​​Security Summit was held in Detroit. This global car network security summit is not a gathering of programmers, but a cross-industry high-level exchange meeting. Also participating in the conference were leaders of the automotive industry, government, and law enforcement agencies, including Anthony Foxx, US Transportation Minister, and Mark Rosekind, head of the Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The information conveyed by the conference spokesperson is actually very simple: the global automobile network security threat is heating up now. If the automotive industry, government and law enforcement agencies do not take immediate measures to cope with the threat, then we will face enormous dangers. The auto-pilot area may be declining. year.
A terrible criminal behavior Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at Dutch cyber security firm F-Secure, said that there is evidence that ISIS is now researching autopilot technology, making self-driving cars an ideal car bomb, and the evidence for this continues to increase.
The use of self-driving cars to create terrorist attacks is by no means alarmist. Terrorists can place bombs on self-driving cars and enter the addresses they want to blow up and dispatch “cars†to perform the mission. Therefore, they may not need to recruit human bombs at all in the future. Although automotive safety experts and the media have all pointed out the dangers that hackers may incur in driving a self-driving car, Hypponen said that terrorists are most feared when they use self-driving cars to perform terrorist attacks.
At the summit, John Carlin, assistant to the chief prosecutor of the US Department of Justice’s National Security Division, recalled the terrorist acts in Nice, France, on July 14th:
Terrorist organizations are fully capable of car cybercrime. Since they can now manipulate trucks to hit and kill civilians, it's not hard to imagine that they can also use autopilot systems to do similar things.
General Motors CEO Mary Barra called on everyone to unite to crack down on car network criminals:
The issue of vehicle network security is not just about victimized consumers and car manufacturers. It is a problem that the entire driving industry has to face. It is about public safety. Our competitors in the automotive industry should then unite with the regulatory authorities to crack down on car network security crimes.
Threat to the entire industryUnited States Congressman Gary Peters said:
When automobile network security problems arise, the entire automotive industry will face threats. If someone steals your bank account password and takes your money away, it's a terrible thing. But if someone darkens your car, it will cause disaster. Because once the car software is hacked, the entire automotive industry and the auto-pilot technology it explores may stop moving forward.
Peter Welch, chairman of the Automobile Dealers Association, said that the dealer management system is now in danger:
There are many user information in the dealer management system. Once the system is hacked, the information will be leaked. We are now resisting the attack and penetration of hackers.
He said that as the use of cloud software increases, the dangers we face increase. The recent killings of Tesla Model S show that users need to know where the limits of automotive software capabilities are.
Sam Abuelsamid, an analyst with the Navigant Research Institute, said that the global automotive cyber security summit that is being held now shows the car industry and the society as a whole. Abuelsamid said:
In the past two years, we have made much progress. At the beginning, we denied that the security issue was a prerequisite for all other technologies; we have now acknowledged this.
Let Automated Driving Show Potential Rosekind believes that self-driving cars have great potential and it can save lives. Now, the entire industry needs to act. Only by solving the problem of car network security can we enable automatic driving to realize its potential. He said:
We cannot wait for everything to be perfect before we begin to act. We need to act first, otherwise we will lose many lives in the process of waiting. Last year, there were 5 million traffic accidents in the United States, and nearly 32,500 people died. More than 2 million people were injured and the traffic death rate increased by 8% year-on-year. The number of lives and money sacrificed in traffic accidents is endless, so we should act now.
Therefore, if hackers or terrorists attack autonomous vehicles, the danger will not only threaten the owners but also threaten the entire automobile industry and society as a whole. Although in the real world, long-range attacks have not yet taken place, security experts need to start planning ahead and actively respond to preparedness.
Via:Automotive News
