The US Government has expressed a concern that data hungry autonomous cars – particularly those manufactured in China – may be sending back to their home servers more than just driving data: Autonomous Vehicles Join the List of US National Security Threats | WIRED UK
I cannot say I am surprised by this – it is just a rush for profit…
…and the customers are likely to be the ones paying for the corporate mistakes and shortcuts. One of our team has just been away on holiday and had to leave their new shiny electric SUV at home because of “charging stress” between their home and the holiday cottage 300 miles …
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Because It’s Friday – I know it’s Monday, but Diana and I need something to cheer us up today
If it is not space – see last week and the week before – my pet subject for “Because It’s Friday” is flying cars. The image above is a Google search for “flying cars” so there have been quite a few of them over the years. Have a look at …
Guess who I bought my car from?
Pendragon car dealer refuses $60 million LockBit ransomware demand (bleepingcomputer.com) I do not have any login details with them, just some credit card stuff and other financial information. Of course, they also know all about my car. I wonder if anything to do with the wireless key security has been …
Because It’s Friday – back to space this week
The reason for the “Because It’s Friday” project was to lighten the content of this blog as my stories can be a stream of bad news. With the cyber security news this week of loss of privacy, the insider threat, our cars being vulnerable, threat actors hitting out at home …
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Car hacking “vendors” closed down and other car cyber-security stories
I have covered the hacking of cars several times – having read articles and research about the problem, I keep my wireless key fob in an RFID pouch – now a gang that was selling car hacking tools has been arrested and closed down: European gang that sold car hacking …
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Why threat actors will stick with phishing attacks rather than moving onto move hi-tech attacks?
I really liked this article. I have covered various highly involved cyber attacks over the last few months, deepfakes, hacking cars, air–gap attacks but as it describes in this article, you can use technology to steal those credentials or you can just ask nicely for them: Phishing works so well …
