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Confusing Self-Driving Cars by Altering Road Signs (Schneier on Security)
2017-08-11 11:31

Researchers found that they could confuse the road sign detection algorithms of self-driving cars by adding stickers to the signs on the road. They could, for example, cause a car to think that a...

Self-Driving Cars Can Be Hacked By Just Putting Stickers On Street Signs (The Hackers News)
2017-08-09 03:28

Car Hacking is a hot topic, though it's not new for researchers to hack cars. Previously they had demonstrated how to hijack a car remotely, how to disable car's crucial functions like airbags,...

Vulnerabilities in Car Washes (Schneier on Security)
2017-08-01 10:47

Articles about serious vulnerabilities in IoT devices and embedded systems are now dime-a-dozen. This one concerns Internet-connected car washes: A group of security researchers have found...

TCU Flaws Expose Cars to Remote Hacking (Security Week)
2017-08-01 09:04

Vulnerabilities discovered by researchers in telematics control units (TCUs) from Continental, which are used by several major car manufacturers, can expose vehicles to local and remote hacker...

Hackable smart car wash systems can hurt people (Help Net Security)
2017-07-28 16:37

Two years after researchers Billi Rios and Terry McCorkle first flagged serious vulnerabilities in automatic, smart car wash systems by US manufacturer PDQ, the company is finally acknowledging...

Researchers Demo Physical Attack via Car Wash Hack (Security Week)
2017-07-28 11:02

LAS VEGAS - BLACK HAT USA - Researchers have created proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits to demonstrate how hackers can cause physical damage to vehicles and injure their occupants by remotely...

IBM Launches Security Testing Services For Cars, IoT (Security Week)
2017-07-25 16:30

IBM Security announced on Monday that the services provided by its X-Force Red penetration testing group have been expanded to include connected vehicles and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. read more

Testing the security of connected cars and IOT devices (Help Net Security)
2017-07-25 13:30

IBM Security announced the launch of two new security testing practice areas focused on automotive security and the Internet of Things (IOT). The new services will be delivered via a team of IBM...

Dubai Deploying Autonomous Robotic Police Cars (Schneier on Security)
2017-07-05 17:48

It's hard to tell how much of this story is real and how much is aspirational, but it really is only a matter of time: About the size of a child's electric toy car, the driverless vehicles will...

Unprotected database exposes VINs, owner info of 10 million cars (Help Net Security)
2017-06-07 19:49

A database containing information on 10 million cars sold in the US and personal information about their owners has been found exposed online. The unprotected database was discovered by...