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Microsoft muretseb:
A Cloud-Connected Car Is a Hackable Car

Way back in the 1980s I watched my computer-geek friend manipulate the hot-rolling process of his client's steel mill in Cleveland in real time—from his home. I wondered whether millions of dollars and dozens of lives might be destroyed should this great power somehow fall into the wrong hands.

"Yes," he explained.

That's the difference between hacking a physical rather than a virtual entity.

Nowadays steel plants and other super-sensitive industrial machinery are (or should be) walled off from the Internet. That's why the worm Stuxnet, the only known cybersaboteur to derail physical processes, apparently had to wend its way to Iran's nuclear enrichment plant via memory sticks. Once inside it would seem to have spread on local networks.

But tomorrow's autonomous cars will be far more vulnerable because they will be networked, says Michal Braverman-Blumenstyk, the general manager of cybersecurity at Azure, Microsoft’s cloud service. She was speaking today at a Tel Aviv conference, as reported in the Wall Street Journal.

Edasi lingil:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/green-tech/advanced-cars/a-connected-car-is-a-hackable-car