Showing posts with label cyber safety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cyber safety. Show all posts

Monday, August 11, 2014

Cybersecurity experts call for better automotive cyber safety, echoing Jacobs School research findings

A group of cybersecurity experts has announced a Five Start Automotive Cyber Safety Program at the annual Defcon conference in Las Vegas this week to prevent cars from being hacked, a threat that was first pointed out by a team of computer scientists here at UC San Diego and at the University of Washington back in 2010.

The group, called I am the Cavalry, breaks down the five stars as follows:
Safety by Design
Third Party Collaboration
Evidence Capture
Security Updates
Segmentation and Isolation

Savage and colleagues explain the threat in the video below (courtesy of Motherboard):



More on the research here