Cybersecurity is top of mind for fleets across the globe. An uptick in bad actors targeting trucks has raised concerns about the reliability of the de facto security protocol known as seed-key exchange.
Seed-key exchange is a method used in truck diagnostics systems to establish a privileged diagnostic session. The client (diagnostics software or attacker) requests a seed and then must return a matching key to successfully establish the session.
Seed-key exchange is typically utilized to control...
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