FBI, DoT and NHTSA warn of car-hacking using IoT following Jeep and Nissan hacks

A new joint public service announcement from the USA’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Transportation (DoT) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) lists the wireless components of modern vehicles that can be vulnerable and the methods attackers could use to launch a real-life attack, reported Lane Thames of Tripwire.

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IoT software security is the thing

This year ‘car hacking’ stories went mainstream. The most frightening was the Jeep Cherokee exploit which made consumers and businesses worry about the safety of our future ‘connected world’.

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