{"id":2341,"date":"2018-01-24T19:17:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T19:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/connected-trucks-vulnerable-to-cyber-threats\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:48:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:48:40","slug":"connected-trucks-vulnerable-to-cyber-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/connected-trucks-vulnerable-to-cyber-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Connected Trucks Vulnerable to Cyber Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Modern electronics systems in class 8 trucks can open a virtual door to cyber criminals.<\/p>\n

A recent Today\u2019s Trucking article details how several testing projects at universities have already demonstrated how hackers \u2013 with little difficulty \u2013 can take over a truck\u2019s electronics, seize controls, and mine for sensitive company data in the ECM by hard-wire connecting into the vehicle\u2019s OBD port.<\/p>\n

As trucks become even more connected going forward, experts believe they\u2019ll be even more vulnerable to wireless security breaches and intervention.<\/p>\n

From Today\u2019s Trucking<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat concerns me, as a fleet equipment manager, is increased opportunity for cyber attacks because of the inter-connectivity of our vehicles and all of the components now,\u201d said Gary Hunt, vice-president of equipment and maintenance at ABF Freight System. \u201cWhen you talk about how these different components are going to talk to the truck, across the J-1939, through our telematics system, to us, those are all opportunities that somebody else can talk to those components and get into the truck. That\u2019s a real concern for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hunt was speaking at the at the inaugural meeting of a new Taskforce on Cybersecurity at the American Trucking Associations\u2019 Technology and Maintenance council\u2019s annual meeting.<\/p>\n

A large part of the potential threat comes from the J-1939 data bus. It\u2019s an open standard and provides a great deal of efficiency to the industry, but its open design makes it vulnerable.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe worked, as an industry, to develop that open architecture, so that we could have this great flexibility, as fleets, as OEMs, to work collaboratively. Is J-1931 now going to be our Achilles heel?\u201d asked Hunt.<\/p>\n

The open-architecture CANBUS is just one of the challenges. To really look at the whole attack surface, we need to look all the way up and down the supply chain, noted Keith Doorenbos, a system engineer with Paccar who attended the taskforce session.<\/p>\n

Theoretical models have been developed that suggest even diagnostic tools could be used to move a virus-like attack from one truck to the next, but so far, Doorenbos says that\u2019s entirely theoretical. \u201cI don\u2019t believe it\u2019s even been demonstrated by any of our white hats [hackers working for good], but there\u2019s a lot of exposures in different elements. Basically everything that\u2019s \u2018smart\u2019 out there creates another opening.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doorenbos says trucking hasn\u2019t yet had a lot of exposure to what he called the classic cyber criminals who are after access to traditional servers for data-mining, identity theft, and financial theft.<\/p>\n

More likely, Doorenbos believes, the biggest threat lays in the for-profit sector: cargo theft.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now that\u2019s pretty much done using old-school methods,\u201d he says. \u201cWhat we\u2019re trying to do is prevent giving them new techniques that might make that simpler, more efficient or more accessible.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a huge amount of work in the background to better understand the scale of the problem, and a few solutions are emerging.<\/p>\n

A key pillar of cybersecurity efforts is encrypting data and software so it can\u2019t easily be reverse-engineered or accessed by outsiders. Another strategy is partitioning truck electronic architectures so that, rather than having a single-vehicle network on J-1939, there are a number of sub-networks separating the most critical systems from the less critical systems. Engineers are also inserting firewalls or gateways between the different networks so they can control the data and commands that can move from one network to another.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if somebody can compromise your telematics system that does not automatically give them immediately the ability to send commands directly to an engine or a brake,\u201d says Doorenbos.<\/p>\n

Read the full article at Today\u2019s Trucking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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