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Title: Can Chinese-Made Buses Be Hacked? Norway Drove One Down a Mine To Find
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Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/19/1862...
An anonymous reader shares a report: This summer, Oslo's public-transport
authority drove a Chinese electric bus deep into a decommissioned mine inside
a nearby mountain to answer a question: Could it be hacked? Isolated by rock
from digital interference, cybersecurity experts came back with a qualified
yes: The bus could in theory be remotely disabled using the control system
for the battery. The revelation, presented at a recent public-transport
conference, has spurred officials in Denmark and the U.K. to start their own
investigations into Chinese vehicles. It has also fed into broader security
concerns across Europe about the growing prevalence of Chinese-made equipment
in the region's energy and telecommunications infrastructure. The worry is
the same for autos, solar panels and other connected devices: that mechanisms
used for wirelessly delivering system updates could also be exploited by a
hostile government or third-party hacker to compromise critical networks.
[...] The Oslo transport authority, Ruter, said the bus's mobile-network
connection via a Romanian SIM card gave manufacturer Yutong access to the
control system for battery and power supply. Ruter said it is addressing the
vulnerability by developing firewalls and delaying the signals sent to the
vehicles, among other solutions.
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