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Visions of a BEV infrastructure variety of the Colonial Pipeline Co. hack...
Key points in this Bloomberg Law/Bloomberg Industry article yesterday:
・ Charging stations vulnerable to hacking, research shows
・ Cyber standards lacking as EV industry grows
Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Push Brings Cyber Concerns
Bloomberg BNA | 8/24/2021
Electric car charging stations, potentially vulnerable to hacking, face heightened security concerns as shifts in the auto industry coincide with rising cyberthreats.
President Joe Biden in early August set a goal for electric vehicles to represent half of all new vehicles sold in the U.S. in 2030—a goal aimed at helping slow climate change by reducing fossil fuel use. But shifting from gas-powered to battery-based cars brings with it new cybersecurity concerns, since vulnerability testing has shown that charging stations—by connecting to the internet and communicating with cars—are potential targets for hackers. “Think about how disruptive it was with ransomware shutting down oil being delivered to gas stations,” said Brad Ree, chief technology officer for the ioXt Alliance, an industry-led security certification program for Internet of Things devices. In May, a ransomware attack against the Colonial Pipeline Co. forced nearly half of the East Coast’s fuel supply to shut down. “Just imagine if all the gas stations connected to one common cloud point, what kind of target that would be,” Ree said. He said that public chargers designed to be interoperable, so that EV drivers can charge and pay at different stations along their routes, could be vulnerable to a cyberattack that targets their connectedness, a typical way in for hackers to launch an attack that can quickly scale across a network.
Full article at link: https://bnanews.bna.com/environment...cle-infrastructure-push-brings-cyber-concerns
Key points in this Bloomberg Law/Bloomberg Industry article yesterday:
・ Charging stations vulnerable to hacking, research shows
・ Cyber standards lacking as EV industry grows
Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Push Brings Cyber Concerns
Bloomberg BNA | 8/24/2021
Electric car charging stations, potentially vulnerable to hacking, face heightened security concerns as shifts in the auto industry coincide with rising cyberthreats.
President Joe Biden in early August set a goal for electric vehicles to represent half of all new vehicles sold in the U.S. in 2030—a goal aimed at helping slow climate change by reducing fossil fuel use. But shifting from gas-powered to battery-based cars brings with it new cybersecurity concerns, since vulnerability testing has shown that charging stations—by connecting to the internet and communicating with cars—are potential targets for hackers. “Think about how disruptive it was with ransomware shutting down oil being delivered to gas stations,” said Brad Ree, chief technology officer for the ioXt Alliance, an industry-led security certification program for Internet of Things devices. In May, a ransomware attack against the Colonial Pipeline Co. forced nearly half of the East Coast’s fuel supply to shut down. “Just imagine if all the gas stations connected to one common cloud point, what kind of target that would be,” Ree said. He said that public chargers designed to be interoperable, so that EV drivers can charge and pay at different stations along their routes, could be vulnerable to a cyberattack that targets their connectedness, a typical way in for hackers to launch an attack that can quickly scale across a network.
Full article at link: https://bnanews.bna.com/environment...cle-infrastructure-push-brings-cyber-concerns
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