https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/19/cert_cc_threat_survey/
You've been warned
The Carnegie-Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute has nominated transport systems, machine learning, and smart robots as needing better cyber-security risk and threat analysis.
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In its assessment of transport, the survey worries about long-term interconnectedness.
“Future intelligent transport systems will provide communications and data between connected and autonomous cars and trucks, road infrastructure, other types of vehicles, and even pedestrians and bicyclists,” the report notes.
Road transport will, the report predicts, also become increasingly integrated with public transport – so, for example, train or bus dispatches could be ramped up to relieve road congestion:
“A miscommunication in the system, whether accidental or intentional, could lead to numerous traffic accidents, causing property damage, injury, and possibly death … A compromise of a city-wide system could lead to a massive traffic jam or other major event.”
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Are you depressed enough? If not, the survey also gives you the chance to read up on the risks of the Blockchain, IoT mesh networks, robotic surgery, smart buildings, and virtual personal assistants. The full report[PDF] has much more, in case you need something scary to read before bed. ®