In the last 12 months we have seen a number of automotive related hacks covered in media. However, none has had any real impact on car owners’ more than theoretical consequences and we have not seen any monetization of automotive hacks on a wider scale to date. Perhaps hacking of vehicles is a theoretical problem and there is no business model to make automotive a target market for cyber criminals?
Industries that get “connected” will all experience a similar cycle of cyber threats and attacks. As researchers and academics are exposing various issues in public, cyber criminals and commercials hackers will work in silence on their solutions until they are mature and the business models proven. This presentation will cover our experience in the pay-media industry, which is considered as the “formula 1 of hacking”, and what the automotive industry can learn from that.