The emerging consensus view of humanity's imminent future is that just about everything will soon be interconnected with just about everything else. In a recent report on Digital Life in 2025, the Pew Internet Project predicted that the internet would soon become a "global, immersive, invisible, ambient networked computing environment built through the continued proliferation of smart sensors, cameras, software, databases, and massive data centers in a world-spanning information fabric known as the Internet of Things." Like big data and the smart grid, the Internet of Things (IoT) concept has become a buzz word in the technology trade press. The IoT is predicted by many technology experts to be as - if not more - transformational than the internet …show more content…
The carmaker's action ... the first recall in the U.S. over concerns about hacking ... covers a series of vehicles from the carmaker's Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram brands . other modes of transport. It follows an article published on Tuesday in Wired magazine detailing how hackers were able to use the radio of a Jeep Cherokee sport utility vehicle, one of Fiat Chrysler best-selling models, to disable its transmission as it drove down a public highway near St Louis. And if you've covered our previous reporting these hacking issues are somewhat old news. The Federal intelligence authorities have been quite concerned for a number of years about cyberattacks on the electronic control units (ECUs) in modern cars and other modes of transport . These ECUs represent the brains of most modern cars. The death of Rolling Stone investigative journalist Michael Hastings three years ago is believed to have been caused by such an …show more content…
And as we discussed at the symposium, when you have this level of connected car technology and there has already been a major vulnerability shown up, it shows it's a difficult problem. It is simply not unrealistic to regard vehicles' electronic control systems, to which the hackers gained access, as of similar importance in terms of safety to a vehicle's brakes or fuel system. The industry is going to need a fresh pair of eyes from a security perspective. Something they are not used to doing