John Deere hack
John Deere, the brand name of Deere & Company which is an American company manufacturing for example, agricultural machinery and lawn care equipment, and more has lately been paid a lot of attention in several news reports regarding their app, and their draconian...
A ransomware attack on U.S. critical infrastructure
On Friday 7 May, the largest fuel pipeline of the U.S.A that brings approximately 45 % of the U.S.A east coast’s gasoline and jet fuel from Texas to New York, announced that it had been hacked. On 10 May the pipeline was shut down, but interestingly the spigot was not...
Mobile parking applications
Last week some Swedish news agencies reported about identity fraud on a well-known mobile parking app, Parkster. Fraudsters have much too easily been able to register fake accounts with another person's personal information, avoiding payment for their usage of the...
A Tesla hacked with a drone and a Wi-Fi dongle
Two cybersecurity researchers, Ralf-Philipp Weinmann and Benedikt Schmotzle, have discovered zero-day security flaws in Intel’s ConnMan, which is an open-source software component for embedded devices managing the network connections. They call their attack TBONE, and...
Argo AI safety report
Argo AI, owned by Ford and Volkswagen, is a self-driving technology platform company which recently have released their safety report presenting a high-level summary of their safety activities. Mainly the report is built on Argo’s three top-level safety claims (as...
Bug or cyberattack?
Three weeks ago, 1st of April, taxi drivers of Taxi Göteborg started to report errors in their alcolocks of their cars. Later, it was realized that all alcolocks of the model AL-100 from Dignita were being erroneous. Dignita is a Swedish tech company developing...