Digital Fortress on Wheels Preventing Car Software Hacks

The car sales industry in North America ground to a halt in mid-June after sophisticated cybercriminals took down CDK Global, the software ... Not just for show – after hooking into the APIs available to the dash and accessible through header files, he was able to monitor car state from his app, and ... Security researchers spent months diving into vehicles and found multiple vulnerabilities impacting everything from safety to personal data. Two US security researchers have revealed how they hacked the computer system inside two popular models of car. Cars are becoming “fast, heavy artificial intelligences on wheels,” a RAND report cautions, and that means they're becoming vulnerable. CDK Global says it provides dealership management services software to more than 15,000 car dealers nationwide. USA Today explains, “CDK's ... Car hacking refers to all of the ways hackers can exploit weaknesses in an automobile's software, hardware, and communication systems in order to gain ... Read the latest updates about car hacking on The Hacker News cybersecurity and information technology publication. Researchers found a flaw in a Kia web portal that let them track millions of cars, unlock doors, and start engines at will. A leading software provider to U.S. car dealerships has shut down most of its systems “out of an abundance of caution" after a cyberattack.