Cybersecurity

From Car-Jacking To Car-Hacking: How Vehicles Became Targets For Cybercriminals

As vehicles are increasingly connected to the internet, carmakers must learn to deal with a wave of new security threats.

As cars become more connected, they also become more vulnerable to cyber-attack

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The morning after Laura Capehorn parked her Saab 9-3 estate, all she could find of it was a car-shaped hole in the snow.

The interior designer had left the vehicle outside her mother-in-law's house in Shepherd's Bush, London, one evening in January 2014. By the morning it was gone, presumed stolen.