Category Archives: GM

Robotics supplier’s sloppy security leaks ten years’ worth of data from major car manufacturers

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Security researchers have discovered 157 gigabytes of sensitive data from over 100 manufacturing companies left exposed online for anyone to access.
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A No-Solder, Scrap-Bin Geiger Counter for $15

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Scenario: your little three-hour boat tour runs into a storm, and you’re shipwrecked on a tropic island paradise. You’re pretty sure your new home was once a nuclear test site, but you have no way to check. Only your scrap bin, camera bag, and hot glue gun survived the wreck. Can you put together a Geiger-Müller counter from scrap and save the day?

Probably not, unless your scrap bin is unusually well stocked and contains a surplus Russian SI-3BG miniature Geiger tube, the heart of [GH]’s desert island build. These tubes need around 400 volts across them for incident beta …read more

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No over-the-air update means GM has to recall four million cars to fix fatal software defect

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US motor company General Motors is recalling four million vehicles worldwide due to a software bug that has been linked to at least one death.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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