Click investigates how electric vehicle charging points can be targeted by hackers. Plus drones being tested on an erupting volcano in Iceland, with a view to.
Click investigates how electric vehicle charging points can be targeted by hackers. Plus drones being tested on an erupting volcano in Iceland, with a view to.
Users pull onto their driveways and charge up. thousands of these two chargers have been sold in the uk, so both pen test partners and click contacted the firms to first give them the chance to fix the problems. and we got two different responses. project ev imports chargers from a company based in china called atess. it told us: wallbox, based in spain, did not reply to us, but they did tell ken s team that they had fixed the online problems. time to see if the units are safe. retesting took place this
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Click investigates how electric vehicle charging points can be targeted by hackers. Plus drones being tested on an erupting volcano in Iceland, with a view to.
Wallbox you could take full control of the charger. it could then gain full access and remove their unit s access on the charger. vangelis. it could stop them from charging their own vehicles and provide free charging to a hacker vehicle. for project ev it is way worse because you can load fenway and you can make it, you can brick it, you can make it to be part of a network and you can also make attack other servers. the problem in both cases is the lack of proper authentication between the mobile app on our smartphones often used to control these charges and the computer servers that relate instructions to the boxes. do you think it s an easy hike to
Is often an important meeting, no doubt. and to show off his flashy new motor. but he s nowhere because his car cannot. it s battery is still flat. his current is ok, it s the wall box charger that has been hacked and turned off. and it gets worse. because hackers can access the firmware of the second charger but to project ev, they can disable this permanently. both charges have been approved for sale in the uk by the government s department of transport. so how can this happen? well, thankfully, the good guys have found the problems first. the number of so called white hat hikers is growing fast. these are the people who test systems and products to find flaws before anyone else does. van gillis is the hacker who found the security failures. so on
Points are a must have for early adopters. but here s a question i bet you ve never asked yourself: how secure is your charger? weird question i know, but dan simmons has been investigating how your charging point could be turned against you. ready to plug in. well, the porsche does get thirsty and, as many electric car owners will testify, having a charger at home is almost a necessity to make sure you can go places tomorrow. but all is not as it seems because this smart charger has mysteriously switched off. next day, our man is off to an important meeting, no doubt, and to show off his flashy new motor. but he s going nowhere because his tican can t. its battery is still flat. his car s 0k. it s the wallbox charger that s been hacked and turned off.
Click investigates how electric vehicle charging points can be targeted by hackers. Plus drones being tested on an erupting volcano in Iceland, with a view to.
And it gets worse. because hackers can access the firmware of this second charger, the project ev, they can disable this permanently. both chargers have been approved for sale in the uk by the government s department for transport. so how can this happen? well, thankfully, the good guys have found the problems first. the number of so called white hat hackers is growing fast. these are the people who test systems and products to find flaws before anyone else does. vangelis is the hacker who found the security failures. so on wallbox, you could take full control of the charger. it could gain full access and remove the usual owner s access on the charger. it could stop them from charging their own vehicles and provide free charging