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Meet Berla, the little-known company that can pull smartphone data from your car

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Late morning on Jan. 7, 2015, a black Citroën C3 arrived in front of Charlie Hebdo’s headquarters at 10 Rue Nicolas-Appert in Paris. Two men stepped out dressed in black, toting Kalashnikov assault rifles and a long list of people to kill. That was the beginning of a historic terrorist massacre and subsequent battle with police that left 12 dead and left much of the world wondering how it happened. Police immediately turned to the digital evidence trail, including the Citroën C3. A French supermini, the C3 is advertised as a “smart car,” meaning it creates mountains of data waiting to be analyzed by anyone who can figure out how to gain access. In order to obtain that evidence, French authorities turned to Berla Corporation, a little-known Maryland-based cybersecurity company that works with and receives funding from the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Cybersecurity Division. Berla’s flagship product is Project […]

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At the dawn of connected vehicle networks, cybersecurity challenges remain

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After decades of buildup, the dawn of the smart city is within sight. The biggest connected-vehicle pilot programs in the world are ramping up right now across the United States. But experts still have grave concerns about the cybersecurity and ultimately the safety of this expanding technology. The timetable is imminent.  New York City, Wyoming and Tampa have been the sites of the federally approved Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment Program since launch in 2015. Bidding on contracts to expand New York’s program — which set a goal of more than 8,000 connected vehicles and 350 roadside units to match the connected 12,400 traffic signals already deployed — is expected to be announced this month. Over the next two years, all three of the programs plan to be fully operating. The long-term goals are grandiose and the forecast is clear: Nearly everything on every road in America will one day be connected, tracked and to some extent […]

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At the dawn of connected vehicle networks, cybersecurity challenges remain

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After decades of buildup, the dawn of the smart city is within sight. The biggest connected-vehicle pilot programs in the world are ramping up right now across the United States. But experts still have grave concerns about the cybersecurity and ultimately the safety of this expanding technology. The timetable is imminent.  New York City, Wyoming and Tampa have been the sites of the federally approved Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment Program since launch in 2015. Bidding on contracts to expand New York’s program — which set a goal of more than 8,000 connected vehicles and 350 roadside units to match the connected 12,400 traffic signals already deployed — is expected to be announced this month. Over the next two years, all three of the programs plan to be fully operating. The long-term goals are grandiose and the forecast is clear: Nearly everything on every road in America will one day be connected, tracked and to some extent […]

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Grand Theft Auto V Used To Teach Self-Driving AI

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For all the complexity involved in driving, it becomes second nature to respond to pedestrians, environmental conditions, even the basic rules of the road. When it comes to AI, teaching machine learning algorithms how to drive in a virtual world makes sense when the real one is packed full of squishy humans and other potential catastrophes. So, why not use the wildly successful virtual world of Grand Theft Auto V to teach machine learning programs to operate a vehicle?

The hard problem with this approach is getting a large enough sample for the machine learning to be viable. The idea …read more

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