Q&A: How Hackers Could Exploit Fleet Vehicles – Fleet Management [Video]

If you’re still think of cybersecurity in terms of withdrawal-of-service or ransomware attacks, you’re in for a shock. Software defined vehicles and insecure APIs and mobile services have opened new attack vectors for the bad guys to exploit. And they are doing so enthusiastically.

There has been a 20% increase in the number of vehicles being attacked through API’s in the past few years. A single incident can now affect thousands of vehicles.

The threat is real, and it will have a huge impact for fleets, not only financially, but safety could be impacted as well.

HDT Equipment Editor Jim Park spoke with Upstream Security’s vice president of North American operations, Haim Kantor, about these emerging threat vectors, and the hazards they pose if they are allowed to proliferate.

This Q&A features …