Cars, Security and a Peek into my Life
Like the 2nd floor of a mall.
What about using using a real camera, instead of a phone?
And know how, while typing, the letters get larger?
HD video camera > zoom > record > play it back slowly > get password
Back to the wall when entering passwords, and look up first, everyone forgets to look up.
Staring this 2015 model year, cars will come equipped with internet and WiFi capabilities.
Here I am sitting outside a friend’s house in suburbia; I could connect to the houses around me.
You’ll soon be connecting your car to your home network to update it. Only ever connect your car to a known, safe network, like your home, and never a public network, like a coffee shop.
* = password
You connect the car via a coffee shop > an attacker inside has MITM’d the connection > now all internet traffic runs through his computer first, before going to the internet
Connect only to a network you fully control, like your home.
… that’s only for now. While car hacking is still in its infancy, now is the time to form good habits, because it only takes one connection, one time, to tank it all.
(see: ‘Keri on Driving’ column Dispelling Car Hacking Fears, and the lead press piece I wrote for last year’s SecTor Security Conference)
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Further reading:
– how to secure your car’s internet connection
– my column: WiFi HotSpots are coming to Cars
– what is a MITM attack
– general WiFi security
Each year, Jim Kenzie publishes a calendar of his best photos for charity.
This year’s cars!
1 – my top dream car
2 – best review I’ve written to date is about the MX-5
3 – Jim and I competed for Nissan in the 2014 Targa rally
4 – this scene became the below blog header
5 – so glad station wagons are coming back
Click here to buy, $15 + HST, half goes to charity, and make sure to tell him what to autograph.
I’m hidden on the cover.
I’m here:
That’s good helping.
We were testing Hyundai’s all-new 2015 Genesis in BC last spring. Here’s the blog post, which also links to the paper review.
Congratulations on a decade, Jim!
This is me right now, pretty useless on all fronts.
Think it’s from stopping, taking time off. I’m not convinced the energy gained during the downtime is greater than the energy expended to start the machine back up.
As in – just keep working. And know who lives the longest? The people who never stop working, those guys live to like, 90.
Dinner out tonight, where we put the world to rights and I jacknife laughed twice.
Tomorrow is Deadline Friday so back to that, have a good Thursday night, best night of the week!
PS – as I was typing this I got drunk dialled YES I love getting drunk dialled, see – Thursday nights…
