Cyber threats to connected cars
(PHYSorg.com Technology)

Connected cars could be as vulnerable to so-called `cyber attack` as the smartphone in your hand or the personal computer on your desktop, according to a new study from the UK. `Connected cars are no different from other nodes on the internet of things and face many of the same generic cybersecurity threats,` the team reports. They point out that the sheer number of putatively connected vehicles represents the biggest problem to be addressed and yet there have been few contributions to the debate. There are threats that are peculiar to connected cars rather than any other Internet of Things (IoT) device, PC, or mobile.