Security News

BlackBerry in Motion: Firm Aims to Secure Cars From Hackers
2018-01-17 11:18

With Jarvis, BlackBerry Targets Connected - and Driverless - Vehicle SecurityBlackBerry mobile devices have become a rare sight. But drivers of Audi, GM and Mercedes vehicles may be using the...

Infosec expert viewpoint: Connected car security
2018-01-11 15:30

A recent Irdeto Global Connected Car Survey found that of the consumers who plan on purchasing a vehicle in the future, 53% are likely to research the car’s ability to protect itself from a...

Smart cars need smart and secure IT/OT Infrastructures
2018-01-03 12:45

IT can fail. It often does. We restart IT, and life goes on. Hackers can also compromise these same IT systems creating disruptions and causing theft of credentials. All manners of serious...

Upstream Security Raises $9 Million to Protect Connected Cars Through the Cloud
2017-12-13 11:43

Upstream Security, a Herzliya, Israel-based cybersecurity company that helps protect connected cars and autonomous vehicles from cyber threats, today announced that it has raised $9 million...

Cybersecurity concerns may stop consumers from purchasing a connected car
2017-12-04 15:12

93% of consumers believe they do not own or do not know if they own a connected car and 49% do not own and do not plan on buying one in the future. However, the Irdeto Global Connected Car Survey...

No key required: How thieves use relay boxes to steal cars
2017-11-28 16:45

Getting in your car and starting it without having to pull the key out of your pocket is one of the small conveniences that come with many modern vehicles. Unfortunately, the capability is also...

Man-in-the-Middle Attack against Electronic Car-Door Openers
2017-11-28 12:03

This is an interesting tactic, and there's a video of it being used: The theft took just one minute and the Mercedes car, stolen from the Elmdon area of Solihull on 24 September, has not been...

Company That Tracks Location of Cars Left Data Open to the World
2017-09-25 18:24

A misconfigured Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket containing more than half a million records pertaining to an auto tracking company was left publicly accessible, thus leaking the data stored in...

Passwords For 500,000 Car Tracking Devices Leaked Online
2017-09-22 09:33

Another day, another news about a data breach, though this is something disconcerting. Login credentials of more than half a million records belonging to vehicle tracking device company SVR...

Unpatchable Flaw in Modern Cars Allows Hackers to Disable Safety Features (The Hackers News)
2017-08-17 08:57

Today, many automobiles companies are offering vehicles that run on the mostly drive-by-wire system, which means a majority of car's functions—from instrument cluster to steering, brakes, and...