Turning off vehicles
Written by Ana Magazinius, RISE Viktoria. Immobilizers are used to make sure that only the owner of a car, using a correct key fob, can start their vehicle. If the car is stolen the owner can connect to it via the immobilizer and make sure that it cannot be started...
A Note on Protection Mechanisms Against GPS Spoofing
When we published the news on Tesla GPS spoofing attack a few days ago Benjamin Svensson from Assured AB suggested we should write a bit more about it and accepted an invitation to write the text himself: GPS spoofing has been around as long as GPS itself and the...
Tricking Tesla Cars Off The Road
Written by Ana Magazinius, RISE. In June Regulus, an Israeli security firm stated that they had successfully implemented a hack that forced Tesla model 3 off the road. Comprehensive details about the hack can be read in their blog post. The news was picked up by both...
ESCAR US 2019 – Summary
The ESCAR US conference took place June 12-13 and focused on topics such as sensor security, IDS systems and detection of falsified transmissions on CAN buses and various problems which has been discovered in vehicular systems. Below is a summary of some of the talks....
A single cyber hack can cost an automaker up to $1.1 billion today
Text from UPSTREAM SECURITY GLOBAL AUTOMOTIVE CYBERSECURITY REPORT 2019 www.upstream.auto hello@upstream.auto AUTOMOTIVE GRADE IS NOT ENTERPRISE GRADE. IT’S MUCH BIGGER It’s easy to look at graphs, charts, and reported incidents and miss the gravity of data. After...
Privacy Concerns Rise as Sharing of Scooter Data Becomes Mandatory
*The story was published by Drive Sweden Smart Mobility Newsletter on the 30th of May. Scooter sharing companies have been trading data for the right to operate in US cities, and now, shared mobility actors such as Uber are raising privacy concerns over the “massive...