On Thursday, March 7, 2016, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) jointly issued a public safety announcement entitled Motor Vehicles Increasingly Vulnerable to Remote Exploits.  This PSA is far more complete than the information-lite versions of it in various online articles.

OpenCdA thinks that another logical attack against automotive electronic systems will be the passive acquisition of measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT) from those automotive systems that now or soon will store information collected by the vehicle’s event data recorder, its onboard GPS and call-for-help systems (note the date on the linked article) as well as the operator’s personal biometric identifiers.

Car hacking is real, and it won’t be going away.