autonomous vehicles
Waymo Sues to Keep Auto Algorithm Trade Secret
Cyberdyne Systems has sued to keep its Skynet algorithm from being publicly disclosed, claiming it is a trade secret. Wait, what? No. Cyberdyne Systems did not sue to keep the algorithm for ...
The Demise of Self-Driving Cars as Such
This is a follow-on column to my May 10, 2021 BlogInfoSec post “Will Full Autonomy Ever Be Realized?” It is prompted in part by the recent decision by the NHTSA (National Highway ...
Will Full Autonomy Ever Be Realized?
Matt Novak of Gizmodo posted an article on April 30, 2021 with the title “Elon Musk Shares Painfully Obvious Idea About the Difficulty of Self-Driving Cars,” available at Elon Musk Shares Painfully ...
Levandowski Admits to Stealing Waymo’s IP
The prosecution of former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski ended March 20 when he agreed to plead guilty to one count of theft and attempted theft of trade secrets from Alphabet’s Waymo after ...
5 Things Impacting Security in 2019
As technology advancement continues at a break neck speed, what can we expect in 2019? More of the same. In particular watch for the following trends that impact security to occur: The ...
OTA: Good for Drivers, Better for Hackers?
The auto industry is on a fast track to autonomous vehicles, in which nearly all vehicle operations will be under the control of a central computer, leaving the passengers to sit back ...
Vehicle Cybersecurity: Mitigating the Threat of Connectedness
Earlier this year, authors David Morris, Garikayi Madzudzo and Alexeis Garcia-Perez released a report on threats to vehicle cybersecurity, noting that the systems in automobiles are as vulnerable as any other connected ...
Cybersecurity Fails … Government Not Keeping Up
I was reading Andrew Ross Sorkin’s article “Flying Taxis, New Exciting Stealth Mode” on the front page of Business Day in the March 13, 2018 New York Times (more about that later) ...
