Tag: cybersecurity

Overdrive Extra
Peeking into the Pandora’s box of trucking technology
Are ELDs secure? Learn more about what's being done to help keep trucks secure as trucking technology continues to evolve and impact the industry.
June 21, 2018
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Electronic Logging Devices
OOIDA requests ELD mandate exemption for small businesses with no at-fault crash history
If granted, the exemption would include only such situated carriers who “do not have a Carrier Safety Rating of ‘Unsatisfactory,’ and can document a proven history of safety performance with no attributable at-fault crashes,'”
November 21, 2017
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Business
Bait and switch in mammoth proportions
“This here’s a stick-up. Put all your money into magic clocks and making those magic clocks safe, or you can’t earn money” … in which an org pushing ELDs for safety purposes plans to offer up a service intended to help keep public safe from hacking threat.
October 11, 2017
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Electronic Logging Devices
Cybersecurity: Tips for greater peace of mind
Anyone plugging a device into the onboard diagnostics port, particularly an ELD that will open up a connection between the truck’s computer and the internet, would do well to follow these practices.
September 13, 2017
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Electronic Logging Devices
ELD makers’ controls for data security
Suppliers restrict their electronic logging device applications from sharing data with other applications on the device as a safeguard against potential security breaches in those applications, among other efforts.
September 12, 2017
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Electronic Logging Devices
Hacking trucks: Cybersecurity and the ELD mandate
With hundreds of thousands of big rigs about to tack on internet-connected ELDs, some people see a major security threat.
September 7, 2017
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Electronic Logging Devices
POLL: What’s your level of concern over hacking/security risks and ELDs?
This poll probes the extent of worry over the outside potential for a truck’s computer-system infiltration through an ECM plug-in device, like an ELD. Reports and device makers suggest risk is minimal without physical infiltration, though malicious programmers abound …
August 8, 2017
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Channel 19
Cybersecurity alliance formed specifically to address IoT, the Internet of Tru…, um, ‘Things’
In AT&T’s analysis of the threat to internet-connected things, including vehicles, over the recent past, the company said “in the past three years” it “has seen a 3,198% increase in attackers scanning for vulnerabilities in IoT devices.”
February 13, 2017
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Channel 19
Foiling the truck-hackers, ELD edition: Vigilance needed from all quarters of the industry
Might the future bring malicious programming attacks on the electronic systems controlling vehicles? Cybersecurity researchers have shown it’s possible, but no actual hack has been documented. One operator’s story of ELD/ECM malfunction, however, raises question the industry needs to continue to ask.
January 26, 2017
This slide from the NAFA Fleet Management Association’s October presentation on and discussion of vehicle hacking risk illustrated the variety of entry points that presented opportunity for malicious programmers. Read more about the discussion’s assessments of risk and ways to combat it via this link.
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