Canadian trucker\u2019s blockade which briefly impacted production<\/a><\/span><\/strong> at five factories across North America. All told, the automaker\u2019s U.S. dealers have less than a 10-day supply of vehicles in inventory, compared to an industry norm of around 65 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\nNo surprise<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The fact that Toyota was hit through a supplier came as no surprise to Slava Bronfman, CEO and co-founder at Cybellum, an automotive cyber security company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSupply chain issues are already one of the weakest links for an organization, even in the best of times,\u201d said Bronfman. \u201cThe challenges are not just in how they impact production capabilities, but also in how they affect the security of the final product.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bronfman and other cybersecurity experts worry hackers won\u2019t just target supplier and assembly plants but electronic systems within vehicles. Among the concerns, this could later allow hackers to damage vehicles or even trigger ransomware that would shut down a vehicle unless a ransom were paid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Toyota hopes to restart production at 14 of its domestic Japanese factories Wednesday after a key supplier was hit by a hacker attack that has led some government officials to question whether Russians were involved. Get details at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,5,1164,1169,12,9],"tags":[5097,5094,543,5095,5096],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220348"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220383,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220348\/revisions\/220383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220348"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=220348"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=220348"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=220348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}