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EV charging stations: Are they new targets for cyberattacks?

Like more automated, electric vehicles, EV charging stations face many of the same security challenges.

In a recent EV charging station study conducted by Carlos Alvarez College of Business' Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security, researchers examined 16 different EV charging systems and uncovered 13 significant areas of security threats and vulnerabilities, such as missing authentication and cross-site scripting.

One thing's for sure: EV charging stations are going to require robust monitoring and management to ensure that they don't present vulnerabilities that cyber criminals can take advantage of.

Developers of EV charging stations might even consider borrowing a page from what many autonomous vehicle manufacturers have been doing: incorporating an internal disk and control software in each device that enables the device to run on its own for a while if internet connectivity is lost.

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