Media Coverage

Ian Foster on "Fast and Vulnerable: A Story of Telematic Failures"

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Apparently All Cars Can Be Hacked Now: Insurance Dongle Edition (The Truth About Cars, 8.11.15)
Car dongles let you hack the brakes (Wired UK, 8.11.15)
Corvette hijacked by hacking its insurance dongle (Geek, 8.11.15)
Chevy Corvette is latest car breached by hackers (autoblog, 8.11.15)
Hackers Cut a Corvette’s Brakes Via a Common Car Gadget (Wired, 8.11.15)
Hackers Remotely Engage Corvette’s Brakes Through Insurance Dongle (übergizmo, 8.11.15)
Insurance monitoring dashboard devices used by Uber let hackers "cut your brakes" over wireless (boingboing, 8.11.15)
Researchers Hack Corvette’s Brake System (Clapway, 8.11.15)
Researchers Hacked The Brakes Of A Corvette With Text Messages (Fast Company, 8.11.15)
Researchers wirelessly hack a Corvette's brakes using an insurance dongle (The Verge, 8.11.15)
Small Wireless Car Devices Allow Hackers to Take Control of a Vehicle's Brakes (Gizmodo, 8.11.15)
Cars can now be hacked with a text message (Metro Weekly, 8.12.15)
Corvette hack is one more reason to be wary of connected cars (CIO, 8.12.15)
Hackers Cut Corvette's Brakes After Infiltrating Its Dashboard (Newsmax, 8.12.15)
Hackers disable Corvette brakes by texting dongle meant to lower insurance risk (International Business Times, 8.12.15)
Hackers show how easily a PHONE can be used to take control of a Corvette (Daily Mail, 8.12.15)
How texting a Corvette could stop it in its tracks (Computerworld, 8.12.15)
Potentially fatal auto risk traced to UBI devices (Insurance Business, 8.12.15)
Small Wireless Car Devices Allow Hackers To Take Control Of A Vehicle's Brakes (Gizmodo, 8.12.15)
TXT message leaves Corvette wrecked (The Register UK, 8.12.15)
UCSD Researchers Hacked A Corvette and Disabled Its Brakes With A Text Message (iDigitalTimes, 8.12.15)
Updates are coming for a telematics unit that hacked a Corvette (PCWorld, 8.12.15)
Cars can be hacked by their tiny, plug-in insurance discount trackers (CNN Money, 8.13.15)
Hackers control car using a mobile phone in eye-opening footage claiming to expose security flaws (Mirror.co.uk, 8.13.15)
Hackers use insurance gadget to remotely control Corvette (Fox News, 8.13.15)
How to hack a Corvette with a text message (ZDNet, 8.13.15)
Security researchers hack a Corvette using text message (IT Pro, 8.13.15)
Government email security woes widen with Pentagon breach and more (TechTarget, 8.14.15)
Luxury Car Hacking Risk Widespread; Evidence Suppressed: Researchers (Insurance Journal, 8.14.15)

Or Peles on "One Class to Rule Them All: 0-Day Deserialization Vulnerabilities in Android"

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Another day, another stunning security flaw in Android – this time hitting 55% of mobes (The Register UK, 8.10.15)
Android Flaw Lets Rogue Apps Hijack Phones (Tom's Guide, 8.11.15)
IBM finds app lookalike flaw in Android (Computer Business Review, 8.11.15)
Patched Android ‘Serialization’ Vulnerability Affects 55 Percent of Devices (Threatpost, 8.11.15)

Florian Adamsky on "P2P File-Sharing in Hell: Exploiting BitTorrent Vulnerabilities to Launch Distributed Reflective DoS Attacks"

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How BitTorrent could let lone DDoS attackers bring down big sites (ArsTechnica, 8.16.15)
Torrent network could let single hacker bring down major websites (Digital Journal, 8.16.15)
BitTorrent applications left vulnerable to DDoS attacks (ITProPortal, 8.17.15)
BitTorrent can be exploited for large-scale DoS attacks (ITNews, 8.17.15)
BitTorrent exploits allow lone hackers to launch large DDoS attacks (ZDNet, 8.17.15)
BitTorrent family susceptible to DRDoS attacks (We Live Security, 8.17.15)
BitTorrent programs can be abused to amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks (ComputerWorld, 8.17.15)
BitTorrent programs can be abused to amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks (ComputerWorld India, 8.17.15)
BitTorrent programs can be abused to amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks (CSO Australia, 8.17.15)
BitTorrent programs can be abused to amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks (IT World, 8.17.15)
BitTorrent programs can be abused to amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks (Network World, 8.17.15)
BitTorrent programs can be abused to amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks (PC Advisor, 8.17.15)
BitTorrent programs can be abused to supercharge denial-of-service attacks (PCWorld, 8.17.15)
Using BitTorrent Vulnerabilities to Launch Distributed Reflective DoS Attacks (Threatpost, 8.17.15)
Your torrent client could help hackers hijack your computer (ExtremeTech, 8.17.15)
BitTorrent programs can be abused to amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks (PCWorld New Zealand, 8.18.15)
BitTorrent programs can be abused to amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks (TechWorld Australia, 8.18.15)
BitTorrent: Theoretical boosted DoS attack threat has been mitigated (The Inquirer, 8.18.15)
New BitTorrent DRDoS Attacks Amp Up Risk, Researchers Warn (Security Intelligence, 8.18.15)

Clemens Hlauschek on "Prying Open Pandora's Box: KCI Attacks against TLS"

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Dying cipher suites are stinking up TLS with man-in-the-middle vulns (The Register UK, 8.11.15)

Ian Foster on "Fast and Vulnerable: A Story of Telematic Failures"

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Corvette’s brakes hacked using an insurance dongle common in US cars (Silicon Republic, 8.12.15)
Hackers Cut Corvette's Brakes After Infiltrating Its Dashboard (Newsmax, 8.12.15)
New research shows that hackers can control connected cars using text messages (Uncover Michigan, 8.12.15)
Security researchers hack a car and apply the brakes via text (The Guardian, 8.12.15)
Security researchers hack a Corvette using text message (IT Pro, 8.13.15)
The Summer Of Car Hacks Continues (Dark Reading, 8.13.15)
Hackers Hijack Corvette's Brakes Through Insurance Black Box (TechTimes, 8.14.15)
Hackers infiltrate telematics technology (Insurance Business, 8.14.15)