Collaborate Disseminate
The common automotive scrap yard is a land of plenty for the enterprising hacker., where many items that would be prohibitively expensive elsewhere can often be had for a song. This isn’t just limited to strictly automotive parts either, as the modern vehicle is full of all kinds of hardware. …read more
Continue reading Salvaging Audio Amplifiers From Vintage Volvos
By and large, automakers have spent much of the last century trying to make cars quieter and more comfortable. Noise from vehicles can be disruptive and just generally annoying, so it makes sense to minimise it where possible.
However, the noise from the average motor vehicle can serve a useful …read more
Engineers are, for the time being, only human. This applies even more so to executives, and all the other people that make up a modern organisation. Naturally, mistakes are made. Some are minor, while others are less so. It’s common knowledge that problems are best dealt with swift and early, …read more
Continue reading Takata’s Deadly Airbags: An Engineering Omnishambles
Italian car customizer Garage Italia has recently transformed a classic Fiat 500 Jolly into a stunning, modern electric car. The vintage beauty is part of the studio’s Icon-e project, which celebrates Italy’s strong design and automotive cult… Continue reading Garage Italia turns vintage Fiat 500 Jolly into an electric beauty
In this week’s CYBER podcast, we spoke about Motherboard’s scoop on a hacker who breached two GPS tracking companies. Continue reading How a Hacker Tracked Thousands of Cars and Gained the Ability To Kill Their Engines
Researchers have been able to fool Tesla’s autopilot in a variety of ways, including convincing it to drive into oncoming traffic. It requires the placement of stickers on the road. Abstract: Keen Security Lab has maintained the security research work … Continue reading Adversarial Machine Learning against Tesla’s Autopilot
Researchers have been able to fool Tesla’s autopilot in a variety of ways, including convincing it to drive into oncoming traffic. It requires the placement of stickers on the road. Abstract: Keen Security Lab has maintained the security research work on Tesla vehicle and shared our research results on Black Hat USA 2017 and 2018 in a row. Based on… Continue reading Adversarial Machine Learning against Tesla’s Autopilot
On April 1, New York state will pass its annual budget. Experts say this might be the year that the state finally passes congestion pricing. The question is whether legislators can do it ethically. Continue reading Is Congestion Pricing the New Sweeping Regulation We Need?
This isn’t a security story, but it easily could have been. Last Saturday, Zipcar had a system outage: "an outage experienced by a third party telecommunications vendor disrupted connections between the company’s vehicles and its reservation softwa… Continue reading Zipcar Disruption
This isn’t a security story, but it easily could have been. Last Saturday, Zipcar had a system outage: "an outage experienced by a third party telecommunications vendor disrupted connections between the company’s vehicles and its reservation software." That didn’t just mean people couldn’t get cars they reserved. Sometimes is meant they couldn’t get the cars they were already driving to… Continue reading Zipcar Disruption