{"id":94343,"date":"2019-08-01T11:22:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T18:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/report-warns-of-possible-mass-casualties-from-automotive-cyberattacks"},"modified":"2019-08-01T11:22:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T18:22:56","slug":"report-warns-of-possible-mass-casualties-from-automotive-cyberattacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/report-warns-of-possible-mass-casualties-from-automotive-cyberattacks","title":{"rendered":"Report warns of possible mass casualties from automotive cyberattacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/report-warns-of-possible-mass-casualties-from-automotive-cyberattacks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Warnings about connected vehicle vulnerabilities have been a steady drumbeat for years. Now a consumer-advocacy group is putting it in starker terms, suggesting a mass cyberattack against such vehicles could lead to Sept. 11-level casualties.<\/p>\n<p>California-based Consumer Watchdog has issued a 49-page report that paints the dire picture and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consumerwatchdog.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2019-07\/KILL%20SWITCH%20%207-29-19.pdf\">urges automakers to install 50-cent \u201ckill switches\u201d<\/a> to allow vehicles to be disconnected from the Internet. The report highlights numerous widely reported instances of remote vehicle hacking, such as a 2015 demonstration involving a Jeep Cherokee left crawling along a St. Louis-area freeway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMillions of cars on the internet running the same software means a single exploit can affect millions of vehicles simultaneously. A hacker with only modest resources could launch a massive attack against our automotive infrastructure, potentially causing thousands of fatalities and disrupting our most critical form of transportation,\u201d the group warns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warnings about connected vehicle vulnerabilities have been a steady drumbeat for years. Now a consumer-advocacy group is putting it in starker terms, suggesting a mass cyberattack against such vehicles could lead to Sept. 11-level casualties. California-based Consumer Watchdog has issued a 49-page report that paints the dire picture and urges automakers to install 50-cent \u201ckill [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}