Yet another data breach at a car company
Yet again, hackers have stolen personal data from a automotive related company and offers to sell it on a cybercrime forum. The company that was breached is a Dutch company, RDC, who provides car maintenances with IT services. According to the Dutch television...
Enabling AI toward future 6G vehicular network security
The fifth-generation (5G) network is rapidly deployed around the world, after which artificial intelligence-enabled next-generation (6G) will be in line with the future evolution of network intelligentization [1]. Proceedings of the IEEE's invited paper "Future...
Black-Hat Hackers caught
Earlier this year in an AutoSec Newsletter it was reported that source code of mobile apps and internal tools developed and used by Nissan North America was circulating the Internet. The data had been shared on Telegram channels and different forums for hackers in the...
All-time high increase in keyless car thefts in the UK
Tracker Network (UK) Ltd is a company that provides vehicle systems used for recovering stolen vehicles in the UK, and its stolen vehicle systems operate in all 52 police forces in UK. Tracker’s tracking solution combines GSM, VHF and GPS which available localisation...
Behavior analysis, testing, and control of connected powertrains for V2X
In modern vehicles, powertrain design and control, traffic flow, energy demand, and emissions strongly influence each other. Along the way, control algorithms will leverage information from vehicle environment enabled by new communication technologies. In March 2021,...
Scientists are finding a way to maintain the cybersecurity of the electronics in the vehicles by applying a domain architecture
In a recently published paper by E. Yu. Pavlenko et al. future aspects for improving the cybersecurity system mechanism based on the ECU (Electronic control unit) in modern vehicles are reviewed. To ensure the cybersecurity of modern vehicles a flexible hierarchical...