Automotive

Many automakers are running fast and furious to make automatic driving cars and trucks.  This is the future.  But skeptics remain.  Especially in the insurance industry.  “I don’t buy into the autonomous vehicle thing. That is decades away, quite fra

Current automobiles and even many trucks already have numerous on-board computers that provide an array of functions in cars.  These all provide opportunities to malicious hackers to cause mayhem.  The safety risk becomes especially critical with aut

Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)[1] and the Multiscale Systems LLC company[2] are currently offering a chilling scenario of widespread traffic gridlock affecting auto-driving cars.   

Higher education and tech companies are now seriousl

Functional safety in automotive development continues to broaden in scope.  Such is the complexity of today’s systems that functional safety is no longer controlled only at high level, but also at component level throughout the supply chain.  The dem

At a resent Infragard meeting in New Hampshire, an electrical engineer from Mitre gave a sobering account of current automobiles and their many cyber vulnerabilities.  Technology is racing forward in the automotive industry and all the while; hackers

US federal authorities, as well as Wapack Labs, are suggesting that auto dealerships should treat the threat of cyber-attacks as important as any other part of their business.  “Dealerships are in control of some important data and protecting that da

Neolix, a China based auto-driving startup company has launched production of its self-driving delivery vehicles.  Neolix claims they are the first company who will mass produce these type delivery vehicles.  They have already contracted to both JD

Automotive iQ SUMMARY: Forecast for the HDV industry is flooded with new launches from top players like Mercedes, MAN and Volvo when in previous years the e-truck industry was mainly about start-ups. Still, the segment faces technical challenges in t

Our friends from Automotive IQ have provided the following article about future auto-driving cars.[1]  Wapack Labs believes it important to keep our membership apprised of cyber developments in the automotive industry.  Self-driving vehicles are a re

On 30 April 2019, Snatch hackers allegedly stole over 516 Gb of CityComp.de client information to include automotive giants BMW, MAN, and Volkswagen (including Porsche).  The stolen data may expose the companies’ IT infrastructure to further attacks

In an effort to help better protect US automobile dealerships, we asked our resident White Hat hacker to come up with hacking strategies to attack a dealership’s network.  Not only do dealerships hold valuable vehicle information, but their financing

Hackers fooled a Tesla Autopilot feature on a self-driving car to drive left-of-center and in the wrong lane.  The hackers did this with low tech means; remotely through root control and a few stickers. 

Researchers (the hackers) published a recent r

With global positioning systems (GPS) being so integral to future self-driving vehicle operations, new concerns of GPS hacking are raising concerns.  Imagine in the future manipulating or turning off automated vehicle GPS components for only 30 secon

With international criminal hackers becoming more diverse and sophisticated, directly targeting auto dealerships would provide a treasure trove of financial and proprietary information.  This information could range from auto company and dealership i

In a recent The Tech Advocate blog, the issue of trusting self-driving cars with our children’s safety was discussed.  Imagine placing your seven-year-old child on a self-driving school bus.  Would you?  Researchers in China tried to answer this ques