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Cheap electricity, and that means that now, nearly half of all of the cars here are electric. the country is second only to norway in its adoption. but while things are moving at a pretty fast pace here in iceland, the uk is still trying to increase the number of publicly available charging points to help with the switch to electric there, and that means that home charging 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 coul...

So everything you do online is potentially exposed. and with many of us now working from home, confidential commercial information might also incentivise an attacker. if you are a small business and you have got one of these charges and it's connected to your business network, you've potentially have created a backdoor onto your network, access to potentially all of your data, and that's going to put you in a whole lot of pain. and new sharing schemes promise to make security even more important, as owners of charges are encouraged to let other ev users pull onto their driveways and charge up....

To make security even more important, as owners of charges are encouraged to let other ev 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.

But all is not as it seems because this smart charger has mysteriously switched off. next day, our man is often 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. 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 of transport. so how can this happen? well, thankful...

To make security even more important as owners of charges are encouraged to let other ev 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, didn't 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.