'Leccy-stealing, grid-crippling hackers could TAKE DOWN EV-juicing systems
Hackers may soon starting abusing electric car charger systems to cripple the electricity grid or as part of money-making scams, a security researcher warns.
Ofer Shezaf, product manager security solutions at HP ArcSight, told delegates at the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam that if the industry fails to start securing its systems, it will be setting itself up for a major headache a few years down the line.
Both electric cars and EV charging systems are still in their early stages of development and far from widely used. But early systems are hopelessly insecure, the security researcher argues, and if thought isn't put into designing and applying a secure architecture now, we'll be dealing with an intractable and expensive problem 10 years down the line - when the technology goes mainstream.
