Internet connected cars are today a reality, where manufacturers such as Volvo vying to integrate technologies that make the trip more comfortable and safer. But what happens when unauthorized persons hacks into the car’s software and take over control?
That was exactly what happened last week in the United States when two hackers – from a mile away – managed to hack into a Jeep Cherooke and take control over the steering wheel from the driver. The car was traveling at over 100 km / h when the radio was turned on, the windscreen wipers are activated and the brakes disconnected.
The trip ended in a ditch, but luckily no one was hurt – it the whole was in fact staged an experiment of two IT experts. The aim was to demonstrate the risks inter connected cars means, and give the manufacturer Jeep opportunity to plug the security leak in their software systems Uconnet.
According to Håkan Burden, a scientist at the Viktoria Institute and lecturer at Chalmers on software systems in vehicles, IT experts succeeded in capturing one of the streams of data that are sent to and from the connected car.
– The hackers have gone up on a wireless network, and pretended to be someone you are not. The car is then believed that it communicates with the usual recipient, but in fact it is the two hackers. But exactly how behaved like the manufacturer did not disclose when it might indirectly encourage more to do the same infringement, he said.
So far, requires this type of attacks a technical excellence, explains Håkan Burden. With IT skills meant not education, but knowledge can be usurped on their own – which increases the risk to people with malicious intentions perform software infringes cars. But more cars switched up should not be seen as merely a security issue, but rather the technology can in the future help to make traffic safer, he said.
– An example could be the rapid weather changes and the black ice. A car can then sign of slipping and communicate the information to the “digital cloud”. The information about the slip danger then sent to posterity cars and drivers given the opportunity to slow down.
Today is is to order all models of Volvo Cars with technology that connects the car to the internet. So far there are no known cases in which a hacker has entered the IT system on a Volvo.
It does mean the social trend, which means that more technical components are connected, the Volvo investing more resources in protect the driver in the digital age.
– The virtual safety has long been a priority and integrated work across our business. To protect our cars from intrusion, we see, among other things, to critical IT systems in the vehicle are kept separate, and that, for example, required certification to systems inside and outside the car to be able to interact with each other, says Klas Bandrik, sitting in the Group Management and is operationally and strategically responsible for it.
As the owner of an offline Volvo, you can also independently contribute to increasing the vehicle’s resistance to nätinkräktare.
– The first thing you can do is to protect your passwords, and use passwords that consist of complex letter and number combinations to the system in and around your Volvo. Additionally, you will Volvo owners verifying and updating the car’s software in connection with servicing of their car, says Klas Bandrik.
Facts: Cars with internetuppkloppling
The benefits of internet connected cars include increased traffic safety, when nearly 90 percent of all accidents are caused by driver error.
In addition, Internet connected cars create better flow of traffic when the car via GPS system automatically adjusts speed and distance from other vehicles.
Internet connected cars will also open up a driverless transport in the future. According to the technology giant Bosch, could driverless cars become a reality in 2020.
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