* Michigan / USA - Jeep hack a red flag for industry
-- Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV is vehemently opposed to hackers’ plans to reveal how they were able to wirelessly hijack a Jeep Cherokee — and potentially hundreds of thousands of other Fiat Chrysler vehicles... The apparent breakthrough is a major security issue not only for Fiat Chrysler, but all automakers... Car hacking has been demonstrated in controlled simulations in recent years -- mostly when hackers are physically plugged into the vehicle’s hardware. Security researchers Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller recently remotely hacked into a 2014 Jeep Cherokee in a real-world test that included disabling the SUV’s engine functions and controlling interior features such as air conditioning, locks and the radio... Miller, a former National Security Agency hacker, and Valasek, director of vehicle security research at the IOActive consultancy, have been sharing their research with Fiat Chrysler for nearly nine months, enabling the company to quietly release a fix ahead of the Black Hat security conference next month in Las Vegas. They plan to release redacted, yet detailed, information at that event... The men reportedly manipulated the vehicle through a vulnerability in a chip that provides a wireless and a cellular network connection. That opened the door to another component for the vehicle’s Uconnect infotainment system that allowed them to rewrite the car’s firmware and send commands through the car’s internal computer network. Miller estimated as many as 471,000 vehicles with vulnerable Uconnect systems are on the road, according to Wired. Fiat Chrysler would not confirm this number... Last week, many major automakers announced an Auto Information Sharing and Analysis Center that will serve as a central hub for intelligence and analysis, providing timely sharing of cyber threats and potential vulnerabilities in motor vehicle electronics or in-vehicle networks... Fiat Chrysler earlier this month released a software update that it says fixes the security breach... While Uconnect was singled out in the article, experts argue practically any modern vehicle could be vulnerable — a major concern, as automakers produce millions of connected cars with Internet capabilities...
(Photo: Chris Carlson / AP - Chris Valasek, poses for a picture at the during the Los Angeles Auto Show on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014, in Los Angeles. Valasek, who helped catapult car hacking into the public eye when he and a partner revealed last year they had been able to control a 2010 Toyota Prius and 2010 Ford Escape by plugging into a port used by mechanics) -- Auburn Hill, MICH, USA - The Detroit News, by Michael Wayland - July 21, 2015
* ACT / Australia - TIC sees effetive loal shield to vehicle hacking: Australian standards and regulations ‘more stringent than in US’
-- The Truck Industry Council (TIC) believes the Australian tougher laws and regulations will protect commercial vehicles from the type of vehicle hacking danger illustrated this week in the United Sates (of A.)... Technology magazine Wired published its on-road hacking experiment just as USA senators separately brought in a Bill to strengthen up their country’s vehicle IT defences, with both moves highlighting vulnerabilities in that country... In a written response to ATN on Australian commercial vehicles’ resistance to malicious outside interference with the safety and proper functioning of onboard systems, TIC chief technical officer Mark Hammond insists they are robust... On that point, Hammond underlines the difficulty of what the security researchers undertook to get through what is a lesser EMC regime and only one vehicle... There was three years of initial work, then with a university grant of US$80,000 they purchased two more vehicles that they claimed to have spent a further 12 months tearing down and digitally and physically, mapping out their electronic control units, to get to where they are today...
(Photo: Vehicle IT security has been put in the spotlight) -- Canberra, ACT, Australia - Fully Loaded, by Rob McKay - 23 July 2015Labels: hackering cars' computers, truck safety
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