Tesla’s Autopilot Vindicated With 40% Drop in Crashes – Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-19/tesla-s-autopilot-vindicated-with-40-percent-drop-in-crashes Autopilot features seem to help safety. →
Safety
Fake news on electrical grid hacking
Washington Post posted a catchy headline: Russian operation hacked a Vermont utility, showing risk to U.S. electrical grid security, officials say Electrical grid can be hacked also in USA – and it was hacked. But this headline is making thing to look more dangerous than what the actual incident was. Also Reuters reported it: Code →
Electronic Safe Lock Analysis: Part 2 — Somerset Recon
http://www.somersetrecon.com/blog/2016/10/14/electronic-safe-lock-analysis-part-2- Analysis of one unsafe BLE IoT lock system. What went wrong and how it should have been designed. →
Why the United Nations Must Move Forward With a Killer Robots Ban – IEEE Spectrum
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/united-nations-killer-robots-ban It is a good idea to ban killer robots! →
Interoperability, Cyber Security And RoI Keep Factories Thinking About IIoT
http://electronicsofthings.com/expert-opinion/interoperability-cyber-security-roi-keep-factories-thinking-iiot/?utm_source=eotpage&utm_medium=eotpage&utm_campaign=eotpage&utm_content=eotposts →
Report: Dangerous Galaxy Note 7 Broke Engineering Rules | Digital Trends
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/instrumental-galaxy-note-7-teardown-news/ →
Security Experts Warn Congress That the Internet of Things Could Kill People
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603015/security-experts-warn-congress-that-the-internet-of-things-could-kill-people/ →
Fatal flaws in ten pacemakers make for Denial of Life attacks • The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/01/denial_of_life_attacks_on_pacemakers/ →
Programmers are having a huge discussion about the unethical and illegal things they’ve been asked to do – Business Insider Nordic
http://nordic.businessinsider.com/programmers-confess-unethical-illegal-tasks-asked-of-them-2016-11 Software controls almost everything in our modern world. →
Hacking industrial processes with and undetectable PLC Rootkit Security Affairs
http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/51389/breaking-news/plc-rootkit.html?utm_campaign=crowdfire&utm_content=crowdfire&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter Industrial automation systems attacks will get more advanced than Stuxnet. Can we keep aging PLC and SCADA systems safe? →