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Government, carmakers more worried than ever about vehicle cyber attacks

Volkswagen announces it will form a cybersecurity company headed by former head of Israel’s security agency. The company, CyMotive Technologies, will be 40% owned by the German automaker and the rest will be controlled by Yuval Diskin and two other former leaders in Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence agency. Last year, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles issued a recall for for 1.4 million vehicles to fix a software hole that allowed hackers to wirelessly break into some vehicles and electronically control vital functions. The Jeep Cherokee was one of five vehicles identified as “the most” hackable, by PT&C|LWG Forensic Consulting Services.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3120485/government-carmakers-more-worried-than-ever-about-vehicle-cyber-attacks.html

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