Software Security Coming Soon to Vehicles
http://recode.net/2014/02/07/tesla-hires-hacker-kristin-paget-to-well-secure-some-things/ Tesla Hires Hacker Kristin Paget to, Well, Secure Some Things February 7, 2014 By Ina Fried [image http://recodetech.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/kristin_paget_card.png paget business card ] Electric-car maker Tesla Motors has hired noted hacker Kristin Paget, though, like any good hacker, she isn’t saying what she will be doing. “Can’t say too much but ‘securing things’ is a fair bet :),” she said on Twitter on Friday, after earlier tweeting about the new job. Paget told Re/code that she starts working from Tesla’s Palo Alto, Calif., headquarters on Monday. Until very recently, Paget was working at Apple, which she joined in September 2012. Neither Apple nor Paget talked much about what she did at the Cupertino, Calif.-based company, though her business card there carried the awesome title of “Hacker Princess.” Paget, a transgender woman, has been well known in hacker circles both before and after her transition, and previously helped Microsoft in its efforts to secure Windows Vista. At Defcon in 2010, Paget demonstrated how to build a fake cell tower to intercept cellphone calls. [© recode.net , 2014 Revere Digital] http://www.webpronews.com/software-security-coming-soon-to-vehicles-2014-02 Software Security Coming Soon to Vehicles [2014-02-11] ... “So far connected car security has been mainly based on hardware protection and separation with infotainment and vehicle-centric safety systems shielded from each other. However, the shift towards cost-effective software-based security based on virtualization, containerization and sandboxing is well under way with Harman and Mentor Graphics as some of the leading vendors,” said Dominique Bonte, practice director at ABI ... For all EVLN posts use: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=evln&sort=date Here are today's archive-only EV posts: EVLN: BC2BC-2014 Rally-EVent Aug-10/17 EVs-only, all-others=disallowed EVLN: Ford Selling 'Their' Pedego Electric Bike @Dealerships EVLN: GreenFaith recharges your plugin along with your soul EVLN: Fleet managers shown how to go electric EVLN: Tesla CEO Musk & CTO Straubel Q&A In Norway (video) + EVLN: Plugins reprogram owners' lives {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Tesla-Hires-Hacker-Princess-Paget-to-Secure-Things-tp4667963.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
