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...
The Kojima-Toyota incident – A textbook example of a supply chain attack via a supplier
Anyone clicking on to the Kojima Industries' website Monday, 28 February was greeted with the message: "This site can't be reached." Kojima Industries (not to be confused with Japanese game developer, Kojima Productions), is a supplier of plastic parts and electronic...
On Security in Cars and Smartphones
We all probably came across analogies such as “cars are smartphones on wheels” or “cars are computers on wheels”, however not many, presumably, started to thoroughly compare the security mechanisms implemented in smartphones with the ones in modern vehicles. Gladly,...
Welcome to Autosec’s yearly conference on March 9th!
You are hereby invited to this years’ Autosec conference on cyber security for the vehicle industry! We are glad to announce that the conference will be live at Lindholmen in Göteborg. Please register on the below link. The number of seats is now extended to 150...