Data Spaces Symposium 2024

Data Spaces Symposium (DSS) 2024 took place at Darmstadtium, Frankfurt between March 12-14. Some key highlights from the event:  – Strategic Insights from European Commission Speakers:European Commission speakers provided strategic insights into the Data Act and...

Attack on Rental Company

In the beginning of the month news got released that the car rental company Sixt got hit by an attack on April 29. According to Sixt, they were able to detect IT irregularities and mitigated the attack at an early stage which resulted only in a temporary disruption of...

About resilience of connected automated vehicles and mobility solutions

Securing automotive systems is no news, the need to secure VANETs neither. However, the more use cases for connected, cooperative and autonomous vehicles surface [1], the more important it is to expand cyber security with resilience. There may be many definitions or...

Heard about BROKENWIRE?

BROKENWIRE is the name of an attack method targeting the charging technologies for electric vehicles (EVs) as it, remotely, aborts the charging sessions by interrupting the necessary communication between the EV and the charger. Researchers from the University of...

Countermeasures to Relay Attacks

We’ve reported and updated you about the insecurities in keyless entry systems of modern vehicles before. And it is still an ongoing problem following Upstream’s Global Automotive Cybersecurity Report about 2021 which says that the most common attack vector for...