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By Jonathan Lee / 17 December 2015   An associate professor at the Hiroshima City University’s Graduate School of Information Sciences has managed to hack into a 2013 Toyota Corolla Fielder Hybrid and control certain functions of the car remotely, exposing a potential security flaw in vehicles connected to the Internet, according to Kyodo News . Hiroyuki Inoue managed to open and close the windows, manipulate the speedometer to show an incorrect reading and disable the accelerator all through a smartphone and a WiFi device constructed from 10,000 yen (RM350) worth of commercially-available parts, the latter plugged into the car’s OBD-II diagnostics port. This gave him access to unencrypted data inside the car’s computer, which controls engine, braking and other functions, although he still was not able to start the engine or turn the steering wheel. Despite this, Inoue was able to move the speedometer to the maximum 180 km/h mark even when the car was stat...

"HOT OR NOT?" COMES TO COMPUTER SECURITY By   Dan Moren   Posted  March 24, 2015 bittidjz via Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 Back in 1999, Neal Stephenson's novel  Cryptonomicon  introduced me to the idea of  Van Eck phreaking —intercepting the weak electromagnetic radiation from a computer monitor to recreate what the person is seeing on the screen. Now security researchers have come up with an exploit that uses an even simpler form of radiation: heat. BitWhisper , as researchers Mordechai Guri and Professor Yuval Elovici of Ben-Gurion University's Cyber Security Research Center have dubbed their program, targets air-gapped machines—computers that are not physically (or wirelessly) connected to the Internet. By using malware that can tap into computers' cooling systems and temperature sensors, the hack can send information back and forth between two adjacent machines. For example, raising the temperature of one computer by a single degree...