Connected, self-drive cars pose serious security challenges

Detroit

IN A world where motor vehicles can be weapons and cars increasingly depend on internal computers and internet connections, carmakers are under increasing pressure to find ways to guard against cyber-attacks.

Car industry chiefs, security experts and government officials warned at an industry conference here on Friday that hackers can threaten to do everything against cars that they do to other computers: remotely steal owner information, or hijack them and render them more dangerous than the truck that killed 84 people in Nice, France on July 14.