ANN ARBOR - In July 2015, a pair of hackers commandeered a Jeep Cherokee through its Uconnect entertainment system to attack the vehicle’s brakes, engine and navigation system. Fiat Chrysler responded by patching the vulnerability and then issuing a recall for 1.4 million vehicles. Fast forward to July 2016: Fiat Chrysler announced it would pay
TROY - Mobile Monday Detroit on Nov. 14 will host a variety of experts to educate the public about the variety of career opportunities available in Cybersecurity. The event is scheduled for RIIS in Troy. Start time is 6 pm. Featured speakers will be: Colleen Riccinto, Founder, Cyber Talent Search Hector Acosta, Research & Policy
WASHINGTON DC - The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration published a series of non-binding guidelines for all U.S. Automakers to protect cars and drivers from the increasing threat of cyber attacks. Vehicle cyber attacks are on the rise. Just last month, Yahoo was the subject of the world’s most massive hack with half a billion
DETROIT - For episode 167, we took advantage of all of the live recording that we did during the day at the as well as our chats with Lenovo, and after our usual opening segment, went to those for the balance of the show. But even if you listened live, there are some things
DETROIT - Continuing with our interviews from the North American International Cyber Summit, we spoke with Merit Network communications director Pierette Templeton explains how 97 high school teams competed for the High School Cyber Challenge. The winner on Oct. 17 was Clinton High School, second place went to Airport High School in Carleton and third
DETROIT - More interviews from the North American International Cyber Summit, this one with David Behen, the state of Michigan’s Chief Information Officer. Behen said Michigan is one of the nation’s leaders in cybersecurity, in large party thanks to the guidance of Gov. Rick Snyder. Behen said Virginia, Missouri, Ohio and Indiana are catching up,
DETROIT - M2 TechCast went to the North American International Cyber Summit on Oct. 17 to interview cybersecurity experts. One of those folks at the conference was Linda Marshall who spent decades in executive-level positions streamlining call centers and customer service at Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wireless, as well as a stint as president of
ANN ARBOR - In June, NASCAR Team Circle Sport admitted it paid off ransomware runners after one of its main test computers was infected with Truecrypt malware, a form of ransomware. The NASCAR laptop was quickly isolated, but the ransomware left the team’s crucial test data locked up two days before a big race. Despite
SAN FRANCISCO - If you've never heard of a DDoS attack before, you could be forgiven for wondering what the frak was going on Friday as half your favorite websites stopped working. The acronym stands for "distributed denial of service attack," which is technical speak for a simple but increasingly powerful tool for knocking websites
NEW YORK - Twitter, Spotify and Reddit, and a huge swath of other websites were down or screwed up Friday morning. This was happening as hackers unleashed a large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the servers of Dyn, a major DNS host. It’s probably safe to assume that the two situations are related.
