Hackers are now injecting code into the Electronic Control Unit (ECU) of cars, including headlight wiring, enabling criminals to gain keyless vehicle access. Ian Tabor, a cybersecurity researcher specializing in automobiles, discovered the new Controller Area Network (CAN) injection attack technique while investigating how his Toyota RAV4 was stolen. His findings were detailed by Ken…
Hackers Stealing Cars Through Headlight Wiring
April 8, 2023
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Sales of Used Electric Vehicles Jump by a Third in First Quarter
April 8, 2023
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Used EV sales rose by a third in the first quarter of this year, with average retail prices dropping and remaining well below the price of new electric vehicles, even as Americans remain hesitant to adopt electric cars. The sale of EVs through a licensed dealership rose 32 percent year-over-year in Q1 to 42,753 units,…
Analysts Predict $7 Trillion Global GDP Increase From AI; Some Developers Urge Caution
“We figured out how to make humans scale,” tech CEO Emad Mostaque told attendees at the Goldman Sachs 2023 Disruptive Technology Symposium in London. He was referring to astounding progress in the field of generative artificial intelligence, seen most notably in the app ChatGPT4, which instantly produces research results presented in nearly flawless prose, good…
‘Rung of Hell’: The Hidden Misery of EV Cobalt Supply Chains
April 7, 2023
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Primarily driven by the large-scale adoption of electric vehicles, the production of lithium-ion batteries has spiked, raising the demand for cobalt—a cause of despair rather than prosperity in the African nation of Congo, where the metal is mined amid horrendous circumstances. “I remember looking at this destroyed landscape and these thousands of bodies laboring over…
Apple Tells Users Not to Hang up on Operators in Accidental 911 Calls
Apple issued an advisory on what iPhone or Apple Watch users should do if they accidentally call emergency services like 911 when they aren’t actually needed. Because the iPhone 14, Apple Watch Series 8, and Apple Watch Ultra support Apple’s Crash Detection feature that can determine if someone has been in a car accident, it can…
Microsoft Fined More Than $3 Million in Penalties for Multiple Sanctions Violation
The Biden administration has imposed a multimillion-dollar penalty on Microsoft after the company was found to have engaged in trade with certain sanctioned nations, including Russia and Iran. The Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has decided on a $2.98 million settlement with Microsoft Corporation. The settlement is related to the company’s…
International Authorities Bring Down Criminal Online Platform ‘Genesis Market’
U.S. law enforcement authorities along with international partners have disrupted a “criminal online marketplace” that stole data from millions of computers infected with malware. Founded in March 2018, Genesis Market was an online platform that offered access to data stolen from more than 1.5 million compromised computers containing over 80 million account access credentials. In…
AI Will Replace Nearly Five Million American Jobs: Challenger Gray Report
With its current pace of development, artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to replace millions of jobs rather than simply automating specific tasks, according to an executive coaching firm, with the report coming out amid a tightening of the labor market. Chicago-based Challenger Gray asked OpenAI’s popular chatbot, “What jobs can ChatGPT replace?” to which…
Security Firm Warns Android Smartphone Users Should Update Their Phones Now
Google this week announced that users should update their Android smartphones as soon as possible due to multiple vulnerabilities that can lead to “remote code execution.” In a bulletin issued in April 3, “The most severe of these issues is a critical security vulnerability in the System component that could lead to remote (proximal/adjacent) code…
Warning Issued About Malware Scam Targeting Taxpayers With Deceptive IRS Forms
A top antivirus software purveyor issued a warning about a scam targeting taxpayers with false Internal Revenue Service (IRS) forms that lure people into downloading malware. MalwareBytes, in a release, said it “found an email being sent out with the title of ‘IRS Tax Forms W-9’ which appears to have been sent from ‘IRS Online…
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