The Hidden Risks of Connected Vehicles with Project Lion Cage

In this episode, Francesca Ghiretti hosts the leader of Project Lion Cage, Tor Indstoy and Arild Tjomsland. The project "explores how everyday connected technology—such as smart vehicles and IoT systems—could be exploited in future security crises". How do connected vehicles work? What type of data they collect and where are they stored? Can these vehicles be remotely hijacked? What are mitigating measures that can be adopted?

A few highlights:

- When it comes to Chinese made EVs, 90% of data goes to China (regardless of where the vehicles operate)

- According ot US law, any data collection (including involuntary espionage) is responsibility of the car owner 

- Cybersecurity of many Chinese made vehicles is poor - it took Project Lion Cage's white hat hacker only four days to hack into the system