How supplier Harman learned to fight cyberattacks

An attendee at the car hacking village during the 2019 DEF CON convention in Las Vegas earlier this year. (REUTERS)

By:

TINA BELLON

By:

Reuters

September 26, 2019 09:54 AM

LAS VEGAS -- When researchers remotely hacked a Jeep Cherokee in 2015, slowing it to a crawl in the middle of a U.S. highway, the portal the hackers used was an infotainment system made by supplier Harman International.

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