[SystemSafety] Hackers take over *control* of a car wirelessly

[Martyn Thomas]

Wired says:

On Tuesday morning, Senators Ed Markey and Richard Blumenthal plan to
introduce new legislation that’s designed to require cars sold in the
U.S. to meet certain standards of protection against digital attacks and
privacy. The legislation, as described to WIRED by a Markey staffer,
would call on the National Highway Safety and Transportation
Administration and the Federal Trade Commission to together create new
standards that automakers would be required to meet in terms of both
their vehicles’ defenses from hackers and how the companies safeguard
any personal information such as location records collected from the
vehicles they sell.

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Those standards are going to be hard to develop, especially if they want
high assurance of security against cyberattack. I predict that they
advocate restricting access to technical details of vehicles and that
the assurance relies on penetration testing.

Martyn


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