While there was only one automotive specific talk on this year’s BlackHat Europe, several talks have relevance to the work done in the vehicle industry. RISE Viktoria reports about Toyotas testbed for security training and experimentation, HW supply-chain attacks, the...

During the 4-7 November, the 21st IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems was held in Maui, Hawaii, USA. Thomas Rosenstatter from the Chalmers University of Technology reported on several interesting talks at the conference. For you who are...

Here we are going to discuss some security concerns of the charging stations that are, gradually, not any more strangers to many of us. An electric charger is unlikely to injure you physically; however, your personal data (and of course those related to billing) may...

ZoZ Brooks’ talk during SEC-T 2018 is a good summary of attacks on sensors used in driverless vehicles, such as GPS, lidars, cameras, millimetre wave radars, etc. The talk is over an hour long, and while it is interesting to watch, for those of you with little time to...

As today's vehicles become increasingly connected and automated, the opportunity for new cyberattacks has become a real threat. The automotive industry needs software developers who understand how these attacks work, and how to protect against them. SUFFI is a one-day...

The ESCAR US conference took place June 20-21 and focused on topics such as how to set up bug-bounty programs, how to exploit and reverse-engineer vehicular software, how the vehicular industry should deal with security problems, problems with using machine learning...