Collaborate Disseminate
It can be amusing sometimes, to read an incredulous reaction from outside our community to something that would be bread-and-butter in most hackerspaces. Take the sorry saga of the Cadillac XLR tail light, as reported by Jalopnik. This car was a more-expensive Corvette with a bit of lard around its …read more
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Michelin has teamed with General Motors to target a 2024 production goal for airless tires. The tires, called Uptis, will have several benefits over radial tubeless tires and will debut for testing on the Chevrolet Bolt electric car…
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A month ago General Motors announced plans to wind down production of several under-performers. At the forefront of news coverage on this are the consequences facing factories making those cars, and the people who work there. The human factor associated with the closing of these plans is real. But there is also another milestone marked by the cancellation of the Volt. Here at Hackaday, we choose to memorialize the soon-to-be-departed Chevrolet Volt. An obituary buried in corporate euphemisms is a whimper of an end for what was once their technological flagship car of the future.
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Help is on the way for leaders at small and medium-sized businesses that have had to contend with cyberthreats that would be a challenge even for massive firms with multimillion-dollar security budgets. A program led by alumni of President Barack Obama’s cybersecurity commission was unveiled Monday, offering free tools and resources meant to help smaller companies better secure their corporate networks. The Cyber Readiness Institute was launched in July 2017 by the Center for Global Enterprise — an institution devoted to researching management practices, — to help small and medium-sized enterprises mitigate cyber risk. The Cyber Readiness Program, which launched Monday, includes support from private sector heavyweights like Mastercard, Microsoft, ExxonMobil and General Motors. The plan is for Fortune 500 companies to pass down cybersecurity know-how to companies with only a fraction of the resources, a method that ultimately aims to stop hackers before they can use one company as […]
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The listening habits of around 90,000 drivers of General Motors in Chicago and Los Angeles were monitored by the company for three months in 2017 under its radio-tracking program. The Detroit Free Press reported later released a report that Ge… Continue reading General Motors collected location & radio listening habits data of 90,000 drivers
The automotive industry is looking to step up its collaboration with cybersecurity researchers to identify software and hardware bugs in order to better protect vehicles which are becoming more connected and automated. “We’ve begun to actively develop relationships with the researcher community to encourage them to look at our vehicles and to let us know if they find vulnerabilities,” Harry Lightsey, an executive at General Motors, said Tuesday at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. A case in point is a workshop in Detroit next week that will show industry representatives how to set up an effective vulnerability disclosure program, a practice that enlists outside researchers to find bugs in an organization’s equipment. The workshop’s goal will be to “understand what a vulnerability disclosure program is, how to stand one up, what the pitfalls are,” Faye Francy told CyberScoop after the Wilson Center event. She heads the Automotive Information Sharing […]
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The automotive industry is certain that it can produce IT-enabled, self-driving cars that will all but eliminate the tens of thousands of accidental deaths that happen every year. But the majority of Americans are in no rush to trust their family’s safety to automobiles that can be hacked. “We know and the public knows that we can design systems that function far better than human drivers,” said Harry Lightsey, executive director of emerging technologies policy at General Motors. “But we face a very apprehensive public.” Lightsey, who spoke during a DC CyberWeek panel session Oct. 18 on the future of automotive cybersecurity, acknowledged that part of the challenge facing the industry is the lack of a standard baseline for assessing automotive cybersecurity as it applies to vehicle safety. “There is no baseline…in cyber security [testing for autonomous vehicles]. And there’s no point in trying to pursue that” when the pace […]
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