Connected cars – the next targe tfor hackers

Not so long ago, the idea of us all motoring around in driverless and crash-proof cars seemed about as believable as the 1960s Jetsons cartoon family zipping around in their Aerocar. But today's petrol-heads are rapidly getting used to the fact that next-generation ‘connected' cars, whose wifi-like crash-avoidance systems beacon out to track nearby vehicles, will start appearing on our roads in 2017/18. Driverless and crash-proof cars are no...