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ADT Extends its Connected Security to Mobile

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At a time when consumers have grown accustomed to using their mobile phones to order services and to receive updates on any information they want to monitor, the security industry is looking to meet their expectations.

For example, ADT has been working to extend its subscription-based security services beyond the home and into automotive and mobile phone-based safety initiatives.

During its investor day event held Tuesday (March 1), ADT executives outlined several ways in which the company has reshaped and strengthened its portfolio. Among the newer initiatives are automotive and mobile.

“As we craft our longer-term vision, we’re looking beyond the home, and it’s important for us to talk about the extension into providing safety and security for people — wherever they are,” Leah Page, vice president, emerging business and mobile at ADT, said during the event.

Providing Personal Safety Through Mobile Phones 

To provide personal safety for people on the go, ADT offers its SoSecure mobile app. This allows customers to call ADT for help in many ways — by sliding a button, SMS chat, video or hands-free with a secret code word.

Once activated, SoSecure discretely connects users with trained ADT monitoring security professionals who can assess the situation and notify 911 with the user’s location and profile details to help first responders find them faster.

“We envision situations like running at night, being alone in a parking lot, walking across campus or being the last worker left at your job, and how having an ADT agent stay connected with you or check in on you might make a difference,” Page said.

She noted that the service can help reduce false alarms to 911, ease a caller’s concerns that 911 won’t take them seriously and more efficiently relay data such as the caller’s location to 911.

Integrating With Partner Companies’ Apps 

This service can also be integrated into partner companies’ apps. For example, the personal safety feature integrated into the Lyft app connects Lyft riders and drivers to an ADT monitoring professional.

Page said this mobile phone-based service accommodates the new ways people are living their lives, noting that just a few…

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Hillicon Valley — Presented by Connected Commerce Council — Microsoft disrupts Chinese hacking effort

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Microsoft hit the ground running at the top of a new work week, announcing that it had disrupted a Chinese hacking group that had targeted organizations in almost 30 countries, including the United States, with a focus on human rights groups and think tanks, among others.

Meanwhile, a new analysis found that the Russian hackers behind last year’s SolarWinds hack haven’t slowed down their efforts, and the planned merger of former President Trump’s new media company and another group is under investigation.

Let’s jump into the news.

Microsoft moves to block Chinese hackers

Microsoft on Monday announced that a federal court had granted a request to allow it to seize websites being used by a Chinese-based hacking group that was targeting organizations in the United States and 28 other nations.

International focus: The hacking group, which Microsoft has dubbed “Nickel,” was observed to be targeting think tanks, human rights organizations, government agencies and diplomatic organizations for intelligence gathering purposes.

The court order unsealed Monday in the Eastern District of Virginia allowed the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit to take control of the websites used by Nickel and redirect the traffic to Microsoft servers. Customers impacted by the hacking efforts have been notified.

“Obtaining control of the malicious websites and redirecting traffic from those sites to Microsoft’s secure servers will help us protect existing and future victims while learning more about Nickel’s activities,” Tom Burt, the corporate vice president of Customer Security and Trust at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post published Monday.

“Our disruption will not prevent Nickel from continuing other hacking activities, but we do believe we have removed a key piece of the infrastructure the group has been relying on for this latest wave of attacks,” Burt…

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Securing Connected And Autonomous Vehicles

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Vehicles are on track to become highly sophisticated Internet of Things (IoT) devices. With the added functionality that connects vehicles to other vehicles, the infrastructure, and even pedestrians, the opportunity for hacking expands. Challenges like complexity and the burden of legacy systems further complicate the situation. The future of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) demands levels of safety and security that are currently unobtainable.

Fortunately, some of the brightest minds are working on solutions. One example is the Innovate UK-sponsored Secure-CAV consortium, which is developing hardware-based security technology that will propel the automotive industry forward. Hardware-based security can tackle the threats of today and the near future and create a strong cybersecurity posture for the as-yet unknown threats.

Secure-CAV consortium is made up of four main players:

  • Siemens Digital Industries Software, which developed intellectual property (IP) and anomaly detection software that monitors and collects data from automotive devices in real time. This is the Tessent Embedded Analytics group of products.
  • Copper Horse, which provides security expertise covering the real-world threat environment and hacking equipment in cars, provided standards and threat modelling theory expertise and oversight of third-party security testing along with a ‘whitebox’ security code review.
  • Coventry University, which provided academic car network expertise.
  • The University of Southampton, which provided artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithmic expertise as well as analyzing real-world data collected from vehicles.

Together they created an interactive car hacking demonstration rig (figure 1) that shows the impact of security attacks on real automotive hardware and how the combined hardware/software solution implemented as part of the project can mitigate these attacks.


Fig. 1: The Secure-CAV demonstration rig.

The challenges of legacy systems

The main drivers for in-car network innovation for CAVs are speed and bandwidth – the ability to push high volumes of video and data for analysis. The addition of Ethernet technology alongside Controller Area…

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IoT News | G+D presents new security chips for the connected car

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G+D presents new security chips for the connected car

Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) is launching Sm@rtSIM® CX Luna1.3M, a new range of security chips for the automotive industry. They are based on Infineon’s next generation SLI37 automotive security controller and offer a multifunction platform for eSIM applications, IoT and digital car key solutions.

The automotive industry is undergoing a major change. One of the key drivers of this transformation is the connected car. More and more vehicles are connecting to mobile networks in order to link to emergency service systems and enable extended features such as telematic services. At the same time, a driver’s need for cellular connectivity for infotainment applications is increasing. Additional challenges arise from the development of autonomous driving, as this technology places high demands on the bandwidth of network connections.

For the numerous challenges of the connected car, G+D has developed Sm@rtSIM® CX Luna1.3M – the next generation industrial and automotive grade product suite. It is based on Infineon’s newest security controller SLI37, which meets the technical specifications of the automotive industry and is specifically tailored to the challenging environmental conditions of automobiles. With a faster CPU and larger memory, they enable several innovative applications for the connected car.

G+D’s new products based on these controllers allow automotive manufacturers to provide highly secure and high-performance mobile connections via eSIM technology. They support 5G standalone networks and cover all eSIM consumer and M2M use cases. A special DSDA add-on (Dual SIM Dual Active) is available to automotive manufacturers. This allows to equip vehicles with two eSIM modules: One for using the drivers personal subscription for infotainment services and one for the services provided by the carmaker. The DSDA add-on includes the management of both chips remotely via one central G+D’s AirOn eSIM management platform, thereby simplifying their logistical processes. For example, manufacturers have the option to upload the correct network…

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