- Popular SoC Boards Have An Unpatchable Security Flaw, Leaving Many Automotive, Industrial And Military Components At Risk
August 21, 2019
Researchers conducting a routine security audit recently discovered two serious security flaws within a popular brand of System on a Chip (SoC) boards. The security vulnerability undermines secure boot capabilities. What’s most concerning is the fact that the SoC is deployed in several critical components that go into mainstream industry segments like automotive, aviation, consumer ...
- UK government offers £2m fund for autonomous car security
August 13, 2019
he UK government has launched a £2 million feasibility fund to encourage businesses to develop methods for testing the cyber security resilience of autonomous cars and their supporting infrastructure. The ultimate goal is to be able to use the research to define a universal testing facility used to determine whether autonomous cars have enough hacking resilience to ...
- RMIT develops AI program to manage road signs infrastructure
June 19, 2019
Scientists at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) have developed a proof-of-concept program that can monitor the condition of street signs using Google Street View images. The program uses artificial intelligence (AI) to identify street signs from the Google images to determine whether they need to be replaced. It has been trained to see “stop” ...
- Driverless cars to be rolled out on UK roads by end of 2019, government announces
February 7, 2019
‘Key priority must be ensuring cyber security defences are deployed so this fantastic, ground-breaking technology does not fall victim to hackers,’ one cyber security expert warns Self-driving cars without a human supervisor will be tested on public roads in the UK by the end of the year, under government plans. Fully driverless trials have previously only taken place on ...
