The Dark Sides of Modern Cars: Hacking and Data Collection

Like an unstoppable incoming tide, connectivity has quietly inundated the automobiles we so love to drive. In less than a decade, amazing driver-assist mechanisms and must-have infotainment systems have swept into the dashboards of many popular car models for sale today. And we’re just at the sta...

Imperva Makes Major Expansion in Application Security

When Imperva announced in 2018 it would acquire the application security solution provider Prevoty, a company I co-founded with Julien Bellanger, I knew it would be a win-win for our industry. Prevoty’s flagship product, Autonomous Application Protection, is the most mature, market-tested runtime...

Prepare to Defend Your Network Against Swarm-as-a-Service

The digital world we now inhabit creates unprecedented opportunities – both for good and for ill. One of these possibilities is swarm-based tools that can be used to either attack or defend the network. This possibility, or set of possibilities, has arisen due to dramatic advances in swarm-based...

CVE-2018-17539

The BGP daemon bgpd in all IP Infusion ZebOS versions to 7.10.6 and all OcNOS versions to 1.3.3.145 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service attack via an autonomous system AS path containing 8 or more autonomous system number ASN elements...

Design/Logic Flaw

The BGP daemon bgpd in all IP Infusion ZebOS versions to 7.10.6 and all OcNOS versions to 1.3.3.145 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service attack via an autonomous system AS path containing 8 or more autonomous system number ASN elements...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : BIG-IP ARM BGP vulnerability (K17264695)

The version of F5 Networks BIG-IP installed on the remote host is prior to 11.5.9 / 11.6.3.3 / 12.1.3.7 / 13.1.1.2 / 14.0.0.3 / 14.1.0. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the K17264695 advisory. - The BGP daemon bgpd in all IP Infusion ZebOS versions to 7.10.6 and all...

autonomousvehicletechnologyexpo.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-702477 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| autonomousvehicletechnologyexpo.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79...

Debunking AI’s Impact on the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

Artificial intelligence is the latest buzzword to take hold of the cybersecurity industry. It is being touted, among other things, as the ultimate solution to the cybersecurity skills gap. But just how accurate is this belief? Will AI be the cure to all of our cybersecurity ailments, as human...

Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller: How to Secure Autonomous Vehicles

LAS VEGAS – Concerns over cybersecurity issues in vehicles are nothing new – with worries peaking after the 2015 hack of a Jeep Cherokee that enabled control of key functions of the car. And now, the rise of autonomous vehicles are driving a new set of challenges and concerns for the infosec...

Gpredict - Satellite Tracking Application

Gpredict is a real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application. It can track a large number of satellites and display their position and other data in lists, tables, maps, and polar plots radar view. Gpredict can also predict the time of future passes for a satellite, and provide you...

Chinese Man Gets 5-Year Prison for Running 'Unauthorized' VPN Service

While continuing its crackdown on services that help Chinese citizens to bypass Great Firewall, Chinese authorities have sentenced a man to five-and-a-half years in prison for selling a VPN service without obtaining a proper license from the government. Earlier this year, the Chinese government...

IoT is Insecure, Get Over It! Say Researchers

BOSTON—Noted security experts Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek said the Internet of Things can’t be secure, but it can be tamed. Drawing from their car hacking experience, the two spent the morning contemplating the larger universe of IoT security and conceded that there will always be thousands ...

U.motion Builder SQL Injection

The vulnerability of the autonomous configuration tool for the visualization and control system “U.motion Builder” stems from deficiencies in measures to protect the SQL query structure. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary SQL commands remotely...

U.motion Builder Path Traversal

The vulnerability of the autonomous configuration tool for the U.motion Builder visualization and control system relates to deficiencies in path name restriction. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor, operating remotely, to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the...

U.motion Builder Access Control Information Disclosure File Read

The vulnerability of the autonomous configuration tool for the U.motion Builder visualization and control system stems from deficiencies in access control and the disclosure of information in error messages. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to remotely read arbitrary files...

Self-Driving Cars Can Be Hacked By Just Putting Stickers On Street Signs

Car Hacking is a hot topic, though it's not new for researchers to hack cars. Previously they had demonstrated how to hijack a car remotely, how to disable car's crucial functions like airbags, and even how to steal cars. But the latest car hacking trick doesn't require any extra ordinary skills ...

US Army Researching Bot Swarms

The US Army Research Agency is funding research into autonomous bot swarms. From the announcement: The objective of this CRA is to perform enabling basic and applied research to extend the reach, situational awareness, and operational effectiveness of large heterogeneous teams of intelligent...

Dubai Deploying Autonomous Robotic Police Cars

It's hard to tell how much of this story is real and how much is aspirational, but it really is only a matter of time: About the size of a child's electric toy car, the driverless vehicles will patrol different areas of the city to boost security and hunt for unusual activity, all the while...

Securing Driverless Cars From Hackers Is Hard. Ask the Ex-Uber Guy Who Protects Them

In his Uber exit interview, top car hacker Charlie Miller warns of the dangers of insecure autonomous vehicles. The post Securing Driverless Cars From Hackers Is Hard. Ask the Ex-Uber Guy Who Protects Them appeared first on WIRED...

Consortium Publishes Manifesto on Autonomous Vehicle Security

Intel, Uber and IoT company Aeris have joined forces in an effort aimed at fostering industry cooperation when it comes to building safety features into autonomous vehicles and the systems that support them. Today the group, which goes by the name Future of Automotive Security Technology Research...