US senators ask FTC to investigate car makers’ privacy practices

An ongoing US Senate investigation indicated that connected car makers violate consumer privacy by sharing and selling drivers’ data, including their location, on a vast scale, and that the same car makers often obtain consumer consent through deception. Based on this investigation, senators have...

Automakers Are Sharing Driver Data with Insurers without Consent

Kasmir Hill has the story: Modern cars are internet-enabled, allowing access to services like navigation, roadside assistance and car apps that drivers can connect to their vehicles to locate them or unlock them remotely. In recent years, automakers, including G.M., Honda, Kia and Hyundai, have...

How Connected Car Cyber Risk will Evolve

Learn how connected car cyber risk will evolve in the coming years...

AT&T, GM Make 5G Connected Car Deal

The collaboration aims to enhance various features on GM’s connected cars, with the hope of having millions of vehicles with 5G connectivity on the road by 2024...

This Week in Security News: 15 Billion Credentials Currently Up for Grabs on Hacker Forums and New Mirai Variant Expands Arsenal

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, read about how fifteen billion usernames and passwords for a range of internet services are currently for sale on underground forums. Also,...

New 4CAN tool helps identify vulnerabilities in on-board car computers

By Alex DeTrano, Jason Royes, and Matthew Valites. Executive summary Modern automobiles contain hundreds of sensors and mechanics that communicate via computers to understand their surrounding environment. Those components provide real-time information to drivers, connect the vehicle to a global...

Podcast: enSilo CEO on Black Hat USA 2018 Trends

Las Vegas – Threatpost’s Lindsey O’Donnell sits down with enSilo CEO Roy Katmor to talk about the top trends that we are seeing this week at Black Hat USA 2018 – from machine learning to connected-car security. Download here:...

Trend Micro at MWC: Securing Our Mobile, Connected World

Time flies pretty fast in tech. When Trend Micro was founded nearly 30 years ago, mobile phones were pretty clunky, prohibitively expensive and not in the least bit “smart.” Fast forward to today and the device in your pocket has more compute power than the NASA machines that put man on the moon...

Unfixable Automobile Computer Security Vulnerability

There is an unpatchable vulnerability that affects most modern cars. It's buried in the Controller Area Network CAN: Researchers say this flaw is not a vulnerability in the classic meaning of the word. This is because the flaw is more of a CAN standard design choice that makes it unpatchable...

Subaru car software vulnerability analysis—never a failure of token-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Not long ago, one from California car, information security researcher Aaron Guzman, in Australia, held a computer security conference to introduce a black into the Subaru car of the method. In his own 2017 Subaru WRX STI was found in a surprising number of software vulnerabilities, through these...

Renault Connected Car - Exported components, External URLs, Suspicious files vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Renault Connected Car published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...