Nissan LEAF cloud security fail leaves drivers exposed
Guess how strong the “password” is that protects the data that your Nissan LEAF electric car uploads to the cloud…
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French parking machines shock drivers with abusive messages
Otherwise normal-looking tickets issued to drivers fumed that Meaux mayor Jean-François Copé was “a thieving, bastard mayor.”
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Personal data on 50,000 Uber drivers exposed in breach
The names and license plate numbers of about 50,000 Uber drivers were compromised in a security breach last year, the company revealed Friday.
Uber discovered a possible breach of its systems in September, and a subsequent investigation revealed an unauthorized third party had accessed one of its databases four months earlier, the company said.
The files accessed held the names and license plate numbers of about 50,000 current and former drivers, which Uber described as a “small percentage” of the total. About 21,000 of the affected drivers are in California. The company has several hundred thousand drivers altogether.
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Iowa to put driver’s licenses on mobile phones
The Iowa Department of Transportation will begin rolling out a free mobile app next year that residents can use to store and present a digital copy of their driver’s licenses, the Des Moines Register reported this week.
The mobile app will supplement the traditional plastic ID cards, rather than replace them. Iowa’s DOT Director Paul Trombino said at a budget hearing on Monday that drivers will be able to present either form of identification when prompted by police officers and even during security screening at the state’s airports, according to the report. Trombino also suggested that the state could extend the app to other forms of state identification in the future.
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