Cloudflare's Next Big Business? Protecting Your Car From Hackers

[Zarathustra[H]]

Forbes is reporting that Cloudflare is looking to get into the business of securing cars equipped with smart technologies from being hacked. As we have reported on several times in the past, cars could certainly use added protections from hacking and other security problems, but a question that is difficult not to ask is, what happens when something like CloudBleed hits your car?

Thanks to Cageymaru for the link.

"Explaining the protection Cloudflare might provide, Prince said: "Cars that have an internet connection will have to pass through us... if there's some sort of vulnerability or DDoS [distributed denial of service] attacks, we'll be the first contact [and block malicious traffic]." Software updates to vehicles may also be made swifter and more secure if passed through extra checks on Cloudflare servers."

 

[Zion Halcyon]

Oh, there's a degree of irony here that this comes out same day as the Wikileaks CIA report that they can take over your car and force it to crash...

 

[oROEchimaru]

Also cloudflare was hacked last month

 

[Master_shake_]

kinda puts the toyota unintended acceleration in to perspective...

what if the 3 letter agency of the week was field testing.

 

[Zarathustra[H]]

kinda puts the toyota unintended acceleration in to perspective...

what if the 3 letter agency of the week was field testing.

Industrial sabotage intended to boost the hurting domestic auto industry so the U.S. Govt. could make back it's money on the GM bailout investment?

Now there's an unfounded conspiracy theory!

 

[nysmo]

Oh, there's a degree of irony here that this comes out same day as the Wikileaks CIA report that they can take over your car and force it to crash...

except they cant

 

[Master_shake_]

guess not.

 

[Burticus]

I thought Flo was already protecting my ride.... With her name your price tool