Would the term "car hackers" come to mind if your car would not start. What if you were actually driving down the road and suddenly your streering wheel turned, your brakes didn't work or your engine simply shut down. Would the term "car hackers" come to mind in that situation. For most of us the answer is probably not. But that may be changing quickly.

1. Car Hackers

2. Would the term "car hackers" come to mind if your car
would not start.

3. What if you were actually driving down the road and
suddenly your streering wheel turned, your brakes didn't
work or your engine simply shut down.

4. Would the term "car hackers" come to mind in that
situation.

5. For most of us the answer is probably not.

6. But that may be changing quickly.

7. In the early 1990's the
World Wide Web began
to connect millions of
us to the new and
thrilling online
universe.

8. It was not until a few years later that we began to hear
warnings about the dangers of cyber attacks and viruses
and the problems they could cause.

9. Well now those dangers not only lurk on our computers
sitting on our desks, but also within the computers installed
into our vehicles.

10. Car Hackers Lurk

11. These hackers, using just the right series of computer
commands, can now hack into vehicles anywhere, at any
time, whether they are parked of driving down the freeway
at 60 MPH.

12. We now live a world that many have come to call the
"Internet of Things," meaning that we are all connected and
wired into a sometimes lawless, borderless, and in many
cases, an insecure online world.

13. And just how big is this world? In 2010 it was estimated that
they were roughly 2 billion devices connected in some form
to the Internet.

14. By 2020 that number is
expected to grow to an
estimated 25 billion.

15. This speed of growth in size, coupled with the inherent
insecurity of the Internet itself, makes it almost impossible
for effective security systems and measures to keep pace.

16. This means that currently existing vulnerabilities are simply
built into the constantly expanding connected world we live
in.

17. When it comes to the cars we drive, even if a vehicle could
be designed that was safe from car hackers and their
abilities as they exist today, that vehicle would not be
available for sale in a dealership showroom until 2018.

18. In essence, it would already be three years behind the ever
growing abilities of these hackers.

19. Can We Keep Up With Car Hackers

20. The car industry and governmental agencies alike are
moving as fast as possible to address this issue, but each
admits that they are playing catch up and truth be told,
don't ever really know how far they are behind in the first
place.

21. I won a classic car that was built in 1970.

22. Its mechanical design is simple compared to that of today's
vehicles.

23. It also does not have a computer built into it.

24. It is not only cool as can be, it is also impervious to
anything that car hackers can attempt to throw at it.