Golden Eye-style energy beam is developed by Nato scientists. Michael Hastings may have been killed by ‘CAR CYBER ATTACK’ [FedUp] - MarketTicker Forums. Did DARPA Technology Kill Michael Hastings? “Highly Redacted” Documents Confirm Michael Hastings Under FBI Investigation. FBI maintains files to “memorialize controversial reporting” Julie Wilson Infowars.com September 10, 2013 Despite the FBI’s denial they were investigating Michael Hastings, newly released “heavily redacted” documents on the journalist prove otherwise.
Al-Jazeera and FOIA research specialist, Ryan Shapiro, acquired the documents after he and journalist Jason Leopold filed a lawsuit against the FBI for neglecting to respond to their FOIA requests within the required 20 work day period. View topic - Michael Hastings Journalist 'Car Crash' engine separated. Was Michael Hastings' Car Hacked?
Richard Clarke Says It's Possible Posted: 06/24/2013 6:03 pm EDT | Updated: 06/25/2013 9:46 am EDT _3492339.html? Utm_hp_ref=politics The peculiar circumstances of journalist Michael Hastings' death in Los Angeles last week have unleashed a wave of conspiracy theories. Now there's another theory to contribute to the paranoia: According to a prominent security analyst, technology exists that could've allowed someone to hack his car. Mercedes-Benz Sells Most Cars Ever In September. Will hacking into car systems soon be an everyday concern?
Hackers have recently been demonstrating how they can take control of a car from a distance.
All that's needed is some know-how and a laptop or even a smartphone. Car hacking is seemingly becoming a very real concern. Over the past several years, a segment of the security industry has been discussing issues associated with car hacking, dating back to at least 2010. While perhaps once sounding far-fetched, in today's world, exploiting and taking over cars appears to be a real possibility. According to recent media reports, hackers once again showed how they can exploit vulnerabilities in a car system. Read more... The hackers, who all say they executed the hacks to draw attention to problems so automakers could address them, pulled off the hacks in a variety of methods.
University of Texas team takes control of a yacht by spoofing its GPS. Civilization depends on the Global Positioning System for everything from precision armaments to finding the location of the nearest pizza shop.
Indeed, access to GPS's strengths and capabilities has grown so fast that little concern about its weaknesses has penetrated the public consciousness. Fortunately, assistant professor Todd Humphreys' team at the University of Texas at Austin continues to arrange splashy demonstrations of GPS spoofing. His latest is to covertly alter the course of an oceangoing yacht. View all The Global Positioning System (GPS) is made up of a constellation of satellites and ground stations, the satellites continually transmitting the current time and their location in orbit.
Given such signals from four GPS satellites, the time interval between sending and receiving the signals reveals how far away the satellite is from the GPS receiver. At this point, the indicated course of the yacht was altered by a few degrees, although the ship had not actually turned. Car cyber attack. Hackers Show How to Take Control of Car (Video) Michael Hastings: Army Deploys Psychological Operations on U.S. Senators in Afghanistan War Effort.
Biggest Cyber Attack in History. Cybersecurity Pioneer Narus Asks: "Are You Safe?" Author It's funny how things work.
Earlier this week I was interviewing the team at Narus. The company, an independent subsidiary of Boeing and more about digital, less about massive bodies of steel, is a pioneer in cybersecurity. Cybersecurity, the practices designed to protect networks, computers, programs and data from attack or damage. I was asking the company's president, John Trobough, "As a consumer, why should I care? " The very next day the world sustained what many touted as being the "biggest cyber attack in history. " It was, if fact, big. On the whole, though, the global Internet as a whole was not impacted to the expected extent. "We are living in an interconnected world where lines are being blurred, from the personal to the digital," Narus' Trobough explains. In fact, the guarantees aren't the same. Security Firms Work to Protect Cars From Cyber Attacks. With the integration of modern technology into cars comes the increased risk of in-vehicle hacker attacks.
But a number of virus-fighting firms are working against that threat. Reuters reported Monday that Intel Corp's McAfee unit, best known for PC-virus-killing software, is just one of the various companies looking for a way to protect vehicles' communications systems from an attack. Despite positive technological advances, security experts told Reuters that automakers have so far failed at ensuring protection against hackers, who could conceivably tap into vehicles' systems to steal cars, eavesdrop on conversations, and cause intended crashes. However, there is so far no record of computer-virus-based attacks on automobiles. Still, vehicle manufacturers are trying to stay ahead of the game.
McAfee executive Bruce Snell told Reuters that automakers are in fact nervous about potential cyber attacks. High-tech cars raise possibility of cyber attacks. As cars and trucks have become laden with brainy devices to control such… (Wieck ) Reporting from San Jose — Imagine this nightmarish possibility: Al Qaeda terrorists cause thousands of motorists racing down a freeway during the morning commute to suddenly lose their brakes, leading to chaos, death and destruction.
Implausible? Maybe not, some experts warn. As cars and trucks have become laden with brainy devices to control such features as air bags and crash-avoidance systems, the vehicles have become increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks, according to recent studies by university researchers and security companies. Cars: The Next Victims of Cyberattacks. Every year, automakers endow vehicles with more brainpower.
Conducting forensic investigations of cyber attacks on automobile in-vehicle networks. The introduction of the wireless gateway as an entry point to an automobile in-vehicle network reduces the effort of performing diagnostics and firmware updates considerably.
Unfortunately, the same gateway also allows cyber attacks to target the unprotected network, which currently lacks proper means for detecting and investigating security-related events. In this paper, we discuss the specifics of performing a digital forensic investigation of an in-vehicle network. An analysis of the current features of the network is performed, and an attacker model is developed. Based on the attacker model and a set of generally accepted forensic investigation principles, we derive a list of requirements for detection, data collection, and event reconstruction. Hackers to target and cyberattack high tech cars? Car Security from Cyber Attack - Car Hack Security. Last November, on a closed airport runway north of Seattle, Wash., a team of researchers from University of Washington and University of California–San Diego performed an ominous experiment on a late-model sedan.
With a chase car driving on a parallel runway, they sped the test vehicle up to 40 mph, then turned off the brakes—via Wi-Fi. "Even though we knew what was going to happen, it's a very unsettling feeling to have a loss of control," says Alexei Czeskis, the researcher who was driving the test car. "You get full resistance from the brake pedal, but no matter how hard you press, nothing happens. " Was Michael Hastings Car Hacked? JOURNALIST DIED IN FLAMING CRASH AFTER SENDING FRIENDS PANICKED EMAIL THAT FBI WAS AFTER HIM. Tweet from Wikileaks claiming just before he died Hastings contacted lawyer saying the FBI was after him.
CLICK TO ENLARGE Journalist Michael Hastings at left with Valerie Jarrett in Chicago on election night,2012. Photo by John Santore. Michael Hastings Car Crash Had Markings Of ‘Car Cyberattack,’ Says Former Bush Adviser. Michael Hastings died in a car crash that had all the markings of a sophisticated computer hack, a former cybersecurity adviser to President George W. Bush said this week. Richard Clarke, a former State Department official and adviser to several United States presidents, said the crash that killed the Rolling Stone journalist appeared to be consistent with what he called a “car cyberattack.” Hastings died in the early morning hours on June 18 when his 2013 Mercedes C250 sped through Los Angeles streets before striking a tree and bursting into flames. Clarke said the crash could have been orchestrated by a computer hacker able to gain access to the car’s controls. Car hacking: Car cyberattack a possible theory behind journalist's death. Michael Hastings May Be Victim of Car Cyber Attack, Says Counter-Terrorism Expert Richard Clarke.
Michael Hasting's Car - Cyber attack? By Kimberly Dvorak Created: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 09:40:00 PST Updated: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 09:44:36 PST It’s been nearly three weeks since Michael Hastings was killed in a fiery car accident in West Los Angeles. The award-winning journalist earned his stripes as a wartime reporter and captured fame with his 2010 Rolling Stone story that forced General Stanley McChrystal to resign as commander of the US forces in Afghanistan. According to City News Service Hastings, 33, “was driving south on Highland Avenue when he apparently lost control of the compact (2013 Mercedes Benz CLK250) near Melrose Avenue and crashed into palm trees in the median about 4:20 a.m. Tuesday (June 18). The car's engine reportedly ended up about 200 feet away from the impact site.” An eyewitness at the scene, Jose, employed at nearby business ALSCO Inc said, the car was travelling very fast and he heard a couple explosions shortly before the car crashed.
All the best, and hope to see you all soon. Hastings Car Cyber Attacked - Actuarial Outpost. Michael Hastings Conspiracy: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know. Around 4:30 a.m. early Tuesday morning journalist Michael Hastings died in a fiery car crash while driving through Hollywood. The 33-year-old Hastings was an infamous thorn in the side of the Obama administration when, in 2010, he exposed the scandal that led to the firing of General Stanley McChrystal as America's top commander in Afghanistan. His recent work on the CIA and the NSA have led to some serious speculation about his untimely and mysterious death. » Richard Clarke: Hastings Accident “Consistent with a Car Cyber Attack” Alex Jones. “Intelligence agencies… know how to remotely seize control of a car.”
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com June 24, 2013 Richard Clarke. Photo: National Communications System Former U.S. Hacking a car is way too easy. Conspiracy theories about the cause of the car crash that killed investigative reporter Michael Hastings on June 18 started sprouting immediately after the news of his death broke. So far, no conclusive evidence supports foul play, but on Monday, counterterrorism expert Richard Clarke made news when he told the Huffington Post that the circumstances of Hastings’ car chase were “consistent with a car cyber attack.”