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The challenges of mobile security in a connected…
Waterloo Chronicle Two weeks ago, our chamber was fortunate to host Alex Manea, Director of Mobile Security at BlackBerry, for a presentation around ongoing cyber threats to businesses, particularly through mobile platforms. On a global scale, the use of PCs is generally … |
The stakes are high in the auto industry right now. New technologies, from connected cars to autonomous driving capabilities, create the potential for a revolution in the industry, but also pose challenges that could result in disaster if they are deployed before either the technology or the drivers are ready.
Jill Ingrassia, managing director of government relations and traffic safety advocacy for AAA, spoke during a panel at CES today about the potential for in-car technology to help address the epidemic of auto-related fatalities in the U.S., which reached a new low in 2014 but still amount to about an average of one auto-related death every 15 minutes.
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At the BlackHat Asia conference in Singapore this week, Eric Evenchick, a hacker and former intern at Tesla, presented an open source toolkit designed to interact with the Controller Area Network (CAN) bus that controls most of the functions in many connected cars.
Called CANard, the Python-based system was designed as a tool to help hackers and researchers identify security vulnerabilities in these networks, which can control nearly every function of the car.
Evenchick also developed hardware that will enable users to connect the toolkit to the car. Called CANtact, the device is a CAN-to-USB interface and is available for just $ 59.95. Although Evenchick told Forbes that he currently only has about 100 units of the device available for sale, which he plans to begin shipping in July, he has also made the source code and design files available on Github and has invited others to build their own similar devices.
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One of the potential ripple effects of the connected, and even driverless, car is the future of the traditional traffic light. The consensus seems to be that it doesn’t have a very hopeful one.
Full adoption of the fully driverless car – say, everyone in America travels in cars that drive themselves in every situation – would make the old-school traffic light obsolete. Part of what makes these cars’ autonomous is their ability to communicate with one another so they don’t collide. In this scenario, driverless cars should theoretically be able to pass seamlessly through crowded intersections one-at-a-time without stopping to wait, saving both time and energy in the process.
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