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Cyber Attacks Demonstrated On Autonomous Ground Vehicles
An anonymous reader writes As vehicles increasingly rely on automation, software and technology enhancements to run basic functionality, those systems serve as a potential safety risk when under cyber attack. Mission Secure uses a proprietary methodology developed by the University of Virginia with the Department of Defense for identifying the most consequential and easy to carry out cyber attacks on any system that a defense capability must address. The goal of the pilot is to demonstrate how to identify vehicle safety threats malicious cyber attackers could use to easily compromise the vehicle's key control systems and how these attacks could be detected and protected.
I interviewed for a job working on an autonomous vehicle project, many years ago. Oh, to clarify, this was an autonomous MILITARY vehicle. I see this is just about cars.
My job would have been to do retro-documentation.
That's a violation of the approved development process. I turned the job down.
There is an annoyingly-complicated process that is supposed to be followed. And then there is how things are ACTUALLY done.
Based on this, I suspect your auto-parking Lexus may well be less susceptible than some driverless tank. :( Auto companies don't have to follow standards so ridiculously-difficult to follow that they aren't followed, and then go through the motions after the project is completed.
An old roommate had a red Toyota Corolla. One day he lost his car in a big parking lot, found it, unlocked it, and started the engine before he realized that it wasn't his. Turned out there were ~20 unique keys for his particular model. He got "lucky" with finding an exact same car that used his particular key.