As vehicle connectivity continues to evolve, the risk of widespread cyberattacks increases dramatically. Copying code from vehicle fobs is easy and thieves can do it from outside your home, motel, or office, unless you put your fob in a metal container, such as a coffee can.
This is the reality of a wireless, connected world where car doors lock with a click and a chirp, where children in the backseat stream videos, where back-up cameras make parking easy, where driver assist prevents accidents and companies can update software technology remotely.
“Really, some cyber experts don’t go to sleep without putting their key into a metal container,” said Moshe Shlisel, a veteran of the Israeli Air Force and now CEO of GuardKnox Cyber Technologies. “It’s called a Faraday Cage. You block the electromagnetic field.”
Read the article at Detroit Free Press.
