GM is amping up its cybersecurity unit to ready itself against rising possibilities of threats to its automobile firewall. The company has called for hackers to help it uncover loopholes in its cybersecurity net for vehicles, websites and software, under a “coordinated disclosure” program.
The program’s launch comes at a time when cybersecurity gaps in the automobile industry are increasingly drawing scrutiny on a regulatory level and are leading to massive recalls, The Wall Street Journal reported. For instance, in July last year, Fiat Chrysler recalled 1.4 million Jeep Grand Cherokees after two high-profile security hackers exposed a major security loophole.
In another such case last year, hackers reportedly were able to locate a GM car, unlock it and start it by placing a device under the vehicle. GM, however, was able to push a security update to its system without a massive recall.
“We’re putting a lot of technology into our cars,” said Jeff Massimilla, chief product cybersecurity officer at GM, told Fortune. “There’s a responsibility, obviously, to put an appropriate level of security with those technologies. There wasn’t one single event that prompted this action. We have been maturing our cybersecurity program within GM for sometime now. And as we’ve matured, we have had some interaction with researchers.”
GM’s collaboration with researchers can be called a bug bounty program of sorts, except that the Detroit-based company is not offering any monitory reward for uncovering a security loophole. For the full article click here
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