The Finnish Transport Safety Agency NHTSA has no rules for how to handle the hundreds of millions of lines of computer code that controls many functions in modern cars, reports the trade journal Automotive News.
Especially as more and more equipment installed in modern cars disconnect them up to the local network, internet or satellite radio then you want the NHTSA to know how the agency should respond to issues that traditionally have not been in the area of road safety.
Security issues it needs to consider is malicious software that can be planted in a car’s computer system, which requires that the owner pays for the feature to be activated, thus a form of extortion.
Other new threats are malware that can enter via the car’s entertainment system and which then affects the security features that control and brakes.
The first step of cooperation between car manufacturers is through the information center Isac, in which information about the data threat can be shared between players. But the car industry is still in its infancy when it comes to framing the problems and find ways to jointly attack them.
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