At present, smart cars are facing ubiquitous network security risks.
On the afternoon of March 4, facing a reporter’s question about network security, Zhou Hongyi said: “Our country has now entered the digital age, and the construction of a digital China has become a new trend and new trend in our current development. But digitalization is also a new trend. With a double-edged sword, while improving life, it also brings new network security issues.”
Zhou Hongyi believes that the recent very hot smart car industry can essentially be described as “four wheels with a super mobile phone”. Once a problem occurs, it will be very serious.
There are hidden safety hazards everywhere, and smart driving seems to be immature
During the two sessions in 2021, Zhou Hongyi submitted three proposals, two of which are related to network security. Zhou Hongyi said: “Imagine that in the future, the people’s food, clothing, housing, food, drink and entertainment, and the operation of government and enterprises will be built on the Internet. And software. But as long as it is software, there are inevitably loopholes.”
Now, we have to face the fact that with the birth and widespread application of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and the Internet of Things, although it has brought disruptive changes to many industries, it has also brought about Many security issues.
For network security, Zhou Hongyi cited a few examples: Last year, many hospitals asked Zhou Hongyi’s company urgently for help. The core data of these hospitals was hacked by ransomware and could not be encrypted. This caused the entire process of the hospital to shut down, even some The patient’s surgery could not be performed normally. In 2020, it helped a world-renowned top car company found 17 vulnerabilities that could allow millions of driving cars to be controlled remotely. The sudden loss of control of a car at high speed will bring catastrophic consequences.
At present, smart cars are facing ubiquitous network security risks. The European Union Cyber Security Agency (ENISA) report shows that current smart cars are vulnerable to various attacks, including sensor attacks, misleading target detection systems, malicious attacks on the back end of data centers, and adversarial machines presented in training data or in the physical world. Learn to attack.
As one of Tesla’s signature in-vehicle systems, it also faces network security issues. As early as 2015, hackers invaded the on-board system of Tesla Model S, causing it to suddenly turn off during driving. In 2017, security technicians from 360 and Tencent demonstrated how to remotely access Tesla’s on-board system and power grid system. In 2020, there have been many Tesla APP downtimes around the world, mobile phones cannot be connected to vehicles, and even car owners are locked in their cars, posing a threat to the driving safety and personal safety of car owners.
Of course, cyber security issues are not unique to Tesla Motors. In 2015, two network experts invaded the vehicle system of a Jeep Freelight and activated various functions on the vehicle. In 2016, Nissan discovered that hackers could invadeCar systems, so they had to close specially developed applications.
Some people in the industry said that an important reason why smart cars have become a new target is the gradual digitization of the automotive industry. Compared with traditional cars, the internal functions of smart cars have increased significantly, so the communication channels between the car and external terminals, infrastructure and the cloud have also increased, resulting in more information access points and risk points exposed.
Juhan Lepassaar, Executive Director of ENISA, believes: “Safety should not be an afterthought, but a prerequisite to ensure the normal driving of vehicles.
The highly anticipated smart car, technology and standards are gradually improving
The enthusiasm of the concept of smart cars has begun to intersect with another concept that is in full swing-“new energy vehicles”. Although it cannot be considered that new energy vehicles must be smart cars, the development of smart driving technology and battery technology is gradually making new energy vehicles “intelligent” and smart cars “electric”.
Automobiles that are gradually becoming “electric” and “intelligent” are also welcomed by consumers. Xiao Yaqing, Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, stated at a press conference of the State Council Information Office that domestic new energy vehicle sales in 2020 will increase by 10% against the background of the overall decline in global new energy vehicle sales, and show a continuous growth trend. . Zhou Hongyi predicts that with the rapid advancement of new infrastructure, my country’s smart car industry will show a spurt of growth. It is estimated that by 2025, smart car sales will account for 50% of that year’s car sales.
Analysts believe that the value that the field of smart cars can generate in the future is not only limited to the car itself, but more importantly, the value brought by the ecology of car software and services and smart driving systems.
As the smart car industry has become more and more popular, capital has begun to turn its attention to this field. According to IT Orange data, as of March 1, there were 26 domestic financings in the field of smart driving in 2021, with a total amount of 34.4 billion yuan. For the whole year of 2020, there will be 74 financings with a total amount of 43 billion. This means that the amount of financing in the first two months of 2021 will be 80% of the full year of 2020.
In addition to providing funds for smart car companies, the giants also proactively end. Not only Internet companies such as Baidu, Ali, and Tencent rely on smart technology to deploy the automotive field, but also first-tier vehicle companies such as BAIC, SAIC, and FAW have joined the battle.
As for why capital is optimistic about smart cars, Chen Qingtai, chairman of the China Electric Vehicles Association of 100, believes that smart cars are subverting functional cars, turning a mobile tool into a super mobile smart terminal.
In the wave of “industrial digitalization and digital industrialization”, the safety issues of the “intelligent” and “electrical” automobile industry are naturally the top priority, and the domestic gap in this field is gradually perfect. China Automotive Technology Research CenterThe “White Paper on Internet of Vehicles Network Security (2020)”, which is the lead preparation, not only deeply analyzes the network security problems faced by intelligent driving technology, but also explores the solution ideas of the network security protection system: adopting system reinforcement, sensor abnormal data recognition, and in-vehicle Technologies such as communication security protection and vehicle cloud communication security protection protect all aspects of the Internet of Vehicles.
As the public attaches great importance to the safety of intelligent driving and the gradual improvement of technology and standards, perhaps in the near future real intelligent cars will drive into our lives.