A group of student researchers in the United States developed a security protocol to protect from cyber attacks smart vehicles with GPS, Bluetooth and internet connections.
Last year, 2 scientists remotely hacked a Jeep Cherokee and managed everything– from the vehicle’s radio and media console to its brakes and steering.
“These cars have actually ended up being the trend of the future,” stated Shucheng Yu, an Associate Professor of computer science at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR).
“There might be some really severe consequences if someone hacked into the vehicle. An automobile can be totally managed by the hacker if it is not safeguarded,” Yu included in a university statement.
Yu and his trainee Zachary King, a junior majoring in computer system science at the UALR, developed a security procedure to secure clever automobiles from hacking in the task “Investigating and Securing Communications in the Controller Area Network (CAN)”.
King constructed an experimental environment that imitates the communication system in a smart vehicle, which allows the security procedure to be checked through simulations.
“There are many methods that hackers can control CAN,” King said.
“Once they access it, hackers can quite easily control your car nevertheless they want. We are proposing to include a layer of security, so if an unauthorised individual accesses it, they still would not be able to control your automobile,” King said.
The individuals were honored in July in commencement ceremony at the UALR Engineering and Information Technology Building.
