Close
  • Latest News
  • Cybersecurity
  • Big Data and Analytics
  • Cloud
  • Mobile
  • Networking
  • Storage
  • Applications
  • IT Management
  • Small Business
  • Development
  • Database
  • Servers
  • Android
  • Apple
  • Innovation
  • Blogs
  • PC Hardware
  • Reviews
  • Search Engines
  • Virtualization
Read Down
Sign in
Close
Welcome!Log into your account
Forgot your password?
Read Down
Password recovery
Recover your password
Close
Search
Menu
eWEEK.com
Search
eWEEK.com
  • Latest News
  • Cybersecurity
  • Big Data and Analytics
  • Cloud
  • Mobile
  • Networking
  • Storage
  • Applications
  • IT Management
  • Small Business
  • Development
  • Database
  • Servers
  • Android
  • Apple
  • Innovation
  • Blogs
  • PC Hardware
  • Reviews
  • Search Engines
  • Virtualization
More
    Home Cybersecurity
    • Cybersecurity

    Cars Are Vulnerable to Remote Attacks, Researchers to Prove

    By
    EWEEK STAFF
    -
    July 24, 2015
    Share
    Facebook
    Twitter
    Linkedin

      Today’s topics include claims that automobiles can be remotely hacked and disabled, layoffs at Qualcomm, estimates on sales of the Apple Watch and news that the Federal Communications Commission chairman is in favor of approving the proposed AT&T and DirecTV deal.

      Security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek have made a career out of hacking cars. Valasek is the director of vehicle security research at IOactive, and Miller is a security researcher at Twitter. The pair are scheduled to speak at the Black Hat Conference in August to provide new details about their success in hacking car electronics in a session titled “Remote Exploitation of an Unaltered Passenger Vehicle.”

      As has been their custom in the past three years, Miller and Valasek have provided an early demonstration of their research to a media outlet to hype up worries about the risks of car hacking.

      Qualcomm, whose year got off to a rough start when Samsung decided not to use the chip maker’s new Snapdragon 810 processor in its Galaxy S6 smartphone, is now in the process of cutting 15 percent of its workforce and is considering splitting the company in two.

      After weeks of speculation about what direction the vendor would take, CEO Steve Mollenkopf on July 22 said that Qualcomm will slash annual costs by about $1.4 billion through such measures as layoffs, streamlining the engineering organization, shedding some facilities and outsourcing work to lower-costs regions.

      Apple sold an estimated 2 million to 2.5 million Apple Watches in the latest quarter—bringing in revenue of about $1 billion and making it the best-selling smartwatch on the market, according to a report from Juniper Research. Apple will sell more than 6 million smartwatches by year-end, Juniper predicts.

      Apple Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri remarked that the Watch has sold more than the first iPhone or the iPad in a comparable period—that is, 87 days.

      Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler has recommended that the commission vote to approve AT&T’s $49 billion acquisition of satellite television service provider DirecTV with some conditions. The conditions for approval by the FCC would require that AT&T build on the FCC’s current Open Internet order by preventing discrimination against online video competition and providing greater transparency to its interconnection practices.

      Wheeler stated, “If the conditions are approved by my colleagues, 12.5 million customer locations will have access to a competitive high-speed fiber connection.”

      MOST POPULAR ARTICLES

      Android

      Samsung Galaxy XCover Pro: Durability for Tough...

      CHRIS PREIMESBERGER - December 5, 2020 0
      Have you ever dropped your phone, winced and felt the pain as it hit the sidewalk? Either the screen splintered like a windshield being...
      Read more
      Cloud

      Why Data Security Will Face Even Harsher...

      CHRIS PREIMESBERGER - December 1, 2020 0
      Who would know more about details of the hacking process than an actual former career hacker? And who wants to understand all they can...
      Read more
      Cybersecurity

      How Veritas Is Shining a Light Into...

      EWEEK EDITORS - September 25, 2020 0
      Protecting data has always been one of the most important tasks in all of IT, yet as more companies become data companies at the...
      Read more
      Big Data and Analytics

      How NVIDIA A100 Station Brings Data Center...

      ZEUS KERRAVALA - November 18, 2020 0
      There’s little debate that graphics processor unit manufacturer NVIDIA is the de facto standard when it comes to providing silicon to power machine learning...
      Read more
      Apple

      Why iPhone 12 Pro Makes Sense for...

      WAYNE RASH - November 26, 2020 0
      If you’ve been watching the Apple commercials for the past three weeks, you already know what the company thinks will happen if you buy...
      Read more
      eWeek


      Contact Us | About | Sitemap

      Facebook
      Linkedin
      RSS
      Twitter
      Youtube

      Property of TechnologyAdvice.
      Terms of Service | Privacy Notice | Advertise | California - Do Not Sell My Info

      © 2020 TechnologyAdvice. All Rights Reserved

      Advertiser Disclosure: Some of the products that appear on this site are from companies from which TechnologyAdvice receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site including, for example, the order in which they appear. TechnologyAdvice does not include all companies or all types of products available in the marketplace.

      ×