Researchers from NYU Tandon, the University of Michigan Transport Research Institute (UMTRI), and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have launched a challenge to all white hackers and security experts: find vulnerabilities before implementation of Uptane, the most recent open source cybersecurity framework for the automotive industry.
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NYU Tandon Prof Unveils Homeland Security-Funded Framework for Software Security in Cars
…Cappos, along with collaborators from the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute and the Southwest Research Institute, created a software security update framework for automobiles called Uptane, unveiled last week to reporters at an event at NYU Tandon.
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Uptane Will Protect Your Connected Car From Hackers
New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, the Southwest Research Institute, and the University of Michigan Transport Research Institute are working on a more modern, secure method for sending updates to vehicles. They call it Uptane, and they say that it “counters a comprehensive array of security attacks’ and that can even cope with being...
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FacebookLive Demo of Uptane with Prof. Justin Cappos
New technology is making cars more connected than ever – and more hack-able. NYU Tandon Professor Justin Cappos does a live demo of the framework his team has developed to help prevent such security attacks.
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White hat hackers called to poke holes in open source connected car security platform
The New York University Tandon School of Engineering, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute and the Southwest Research Institute developed a cybersecurity framework called Uptane, for the automotive industry to protect wireless software updates in connected vehicles.
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Are software updates key to stopping criminal car hacks?
Unlike many cybersecurity experts, Justin Cappos doesn’t lay awake at night worrying about data breaches. Instead, as today’s automobiles roll off assembly lines with dozens of embedded computers on board, the New York University computer science professor worries that malicious hackers may become more adept at remotely hijacking cars as they speed down the road….
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Call Issued to White Hat Hackers: Find the Flaws in New Automotive Software Updater
A consortium of researchers today announced the development of a universal, free, and open-source framework to protect wireless software updates in vehicles. The team issued a challenge to security experts everywhere to try to find vulnerabilities before it is adopted by the automotive industry.
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Open source cybersecurity framework for the automotive industry
A consortium of researchers announced the development of a universal, free, and open source framework to protect wireless software updates in vehicles. The team issued a challenge to security experts everywhere to try to find vulnerabilities before it is adopted by the automotive industry.
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WhatsApp’s privacy woes show how messaging app tries to balance security and ease of use
WhatsApp has become popular worldwide thanks to its powerful encryption technology. But making this type of secure messaging approachable and user-friendly can pose some [privacy] problems.… Justin Cappos, a professor in New York University’s [NYU Tandon School of Engineering] computer science and engineering department, said the issue boils down to a user interface problem…
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How Did the Russian Hacks Happen? (audio)
Bob Mitchell from WWL AM 870/FM 105.3 talks to Justin Cappos, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at NYU, about the Russian hacks (Interview at 1:40).