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Surveillance by Driverless Car

May 12, 2022 infossl

cars, police, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, Uncategorized

San Francisco police are using autonomous vehicles as mobile surveillance cameras. Privacy advocates say the revelation that police are actively using AV footage is cause for alarm. “This is very concerning,” Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) senior staff attorney Adam Schwartz told Motherboard. He said cars in general are troves of personal consumer data, but autonomous … Read More “Surveillance by Driverless Car” »

Apple AirTags Are Being Used to Track People and Cars

December 31, 2021 infossl

apple, cars, geolocation, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, tracking, Uncategorized

This development suprises no one who has been paying attention: Researchers now believe AirTags, which are equipped with Bluetooth technology, could be revealing a more widespread problem of tech-enabled tracking. They emit a digital signal that can be detected by devices running Apple’s mobile operating system. Those devices then report where an AirTag has last … Read More “Apple AirTags Are Being Used to Track People and Cars” »

Thieves Using AirTags to “Follow” Cars

December 6, 2021 infossl

apple, cars, geolocation, Security technology, theft, tracking, Uncategorized

From Ontario and not surprising: Since September 2021, officers have investigated five incidents where suspects have placed small tracking devices on high-end vehicles so they can later locate and steal them. Brand name “air tags” are placed in out-of-sight areas of the target vehicles when they are parked in public places like malls or parking … Read More “Thieves Using AirTags to “Follow” Cars” »

Tesla Remotely Hacked from a Drone

May 4, 2021 infossl

cars, drones, hacking, Security technology, Uncategorized, vulnerabilities, Wi-Fi

This is an impressive hack: Security researchers Ralf-Philipp Weinmann of Kunnamon, Inc. and Benedikt Schmotzle of Comsecuris GmbH have found remote zero-click security vulnerabilities in an open-source software component (ConnMan) used in Tesla automobiles that allowed them to compromise parked cars and control their infotainment systems over WiFi. It would be possible for an attacker … Read More “Tesla Remotely Hacked from a Drone” »

Used Tesla Components Contain Personal Information

May 8, 2020 infossl

cars, dataloss, dataretention, hardware, identification, internetofthings, leaks, Security technology

Used Tesla components, sold on eBay, still contain personal information, even after a factory reset. This is a decades-old problem. It’s a problem with used hard drives. It’s a problem with used photocopiers and printers. It will be a problem with IoT devices. It’ll be a problem with everything, until we decide that data deletion … Read More “Used Tesla Components Contain Personal Information” »

Attacking Driverless Cars with Projected Images

February 3, 2020 infossl

academicpapers, cars, hacking, Security technology

Interesting research — “Phantom Attacks Against Advanced Driving Assistance Systems“: Abstract: The absence of deployed vehicular communication systems, which prevents the advanced driving assistance systems (ADASs) and autopilots of semi/fully autonomous cars to validate their virtual perception regarding the physical environment surrounding the car with a third party, has been exploited in various attacks suggested … Read More “Attacking Driverless Cars with Projected Images” »

Cameras that Automatically Detect Mobile Phone Use

December 2, 2019 infossl

australia, cameras, cars, phones, Security technology

New South Wales is implementing a camera system that automatically detects when a driver is using a mobile phone. Powered by WPeMatico

NTSB Investigation of Fatal Driverless Car Accident

November 13, 2019 infossl

cars, internetofthings, Security technology, transportation, uber

Autonomous systems are going to have to do much better than this. The Uber car that hit and killed Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Ariz., in March 2018 could not recognize all pedestrians, and was being driven by an operator likely distracted by streaming video, according to documents released by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board … Read More “NTSB Investigation of Fatal Driverless Car Accident” »

License Plate “NULL”

August 23, 2019 infossl

cars, Security technology

There was a DefCon talk by someone with the vanity plate “NULL.” The California system assigned him every ticket with no license plate: $12,000. Although the initial $12,000-worth of fines were removed, the private company that administers the database didn’t fix the issue and new NULL tickets are still showing up. The unanswered question is: … Read More “License Plate “NULL”” »

Modifying a Tesla to Become a Surveillance Platform

August 22, 2019 infossl

cars, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, tracking

From DefCon: At the Defcon hacker conference today, security researcher Truman Kain debuted what he calls the Surveillance Detection Scout. The DIY computer fits into the middle console of a Tesla Model S or Model 3, plugs into its dashboard USB port, and turns the car’s built-in cameras — the same dash and rearview cameras … Read More “Modifying a Tesla to Become a Surveillance Platform” »