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DoT Still Needs To Define Roles And Responsibilities In Responding To Vehicle Cyber Attacks, GAO Says

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, April 25th, 2016

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DoT Still Needs To Define Roles And Responsibilities In Responding To Vehicle Cyber Attacks, GAO Says

The Department of Transportation (DoT) is taking a number of steps to address cyber security vulnerabilities in automotive vehicles but has yet to define its roles in responsibilities in case there is a cyber attack on a vehicle and how it would work with other federal agencies, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).Automakers continue to use be more software code to support more and increasingly complex electronic systems and components, expanding the cyber vulnerabilities of…

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