Uber Drivers Hacking the System to Cause Surge Pricing

Interesting story about Uber drivers who have figured out how to game the company’s algorithms to cause surge pricing: According to the study. drivers manipulate Uber’s algorithm by logging out of the app at the same time, making it think that there is a shortage of cars. […] The study said drivers have been coordinating forced surge pricing, after interviews… Continue reading Uber Drivers Hacking the System to Cause Surge Pricing

Vulnerabilities in Car Washes

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 vulnerabilities in internet-connected drive-through car washes that would let hackers remotely hijack the systems to physically attack vehicles and their occupants. The vulnerabilities would let an attacker open and close the bay doors on… Continue reading Vulnerabilities in Car Washes

Watch: Hackers take over Tesla Model X; control brakes and doors

By Waqas

The hackers from Keen Security Labs, a part of Chinese Internet giant Tencent

This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Watch: Hackers take over Tesla Model X; control brakes and doors

Continue reading Watch: Hackers take over Tesla Model X; control brakes and doors

Dubai Deploying Autonomous Robotic Police Cars

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 patrol different areas of the city to boost security and hunt for unusual activity, all the while scanning crowds for potential persons… Continue reading Dubai Deploying Autonomous Robotic Police Cars

April 27, 2017 – Hack Naked News #121

Windows boxes are getting pwned, vulnerabilities in SugarCRM, Ashley Madison is back in the news, and more. Jason Wood of Paladin Security joins us to deliver expert commentary on hacking cars with radio gadgets on this episode of Hack Naked News! Full… Continue reading April 27, 2017 – Hack Naked News #121

Detect Cars Running Stop Signs (and Squirrels Running Across the Roof)

There’s a stop sign outside [Devin Gaffney]’s house that, apparently, no one actually stops at. In order to avoid the traffic and delays on a major thoroughfare, cars take the road behind [Devin Gaffney]’s house, but he noticed a lot of cars didn’t bother to stop at the stop sign. He had a Raspberry Pi and a camera, so he set them up to detect the violating cars.

His setup is pretty standard – Raspberry Pi and camera pointed outside at the intersection. He’s running OpenCV and using machine learning to detect the cars and determine if they have run …read more

Continue reading Detect Cars Running Stop Signs (and Squirrels Running Across the Roof)