| Hackers Cut a Corvette’s Brakes Via a Common Car Gadget Researchers from the University of California at San Diego plan to reveal a technique they could have used to wirelessly hack into any of thousands of vehicles through a tiny commercial device: A 2-inch-square gadget that's designed to be plugged into cars' and trucks' dashboards and used by insurance firms and trucking fleets to monitor vehicles' location, speed and efficiency. By sending carefully crafted SMS messages to one of those cheap dongles connected to the dashboard of a Corvette, the researchers were able to transmit commands to the car's CAN bus—the internal network that controls its physical driving components—turning on the Corvette's windshield wipers and even enabling or disabling its brakes.
The headline says Corvette, but this could happen to any vehicle with an internet-connected component. In this case they hacked into a gadget used by companies like Uber to track their cars and were able to get through to the main computer that controls the car. The lesson here is that we shouldn’t trust car companies with computer security. Over 55% of all Androids at risk of high severity vulnerability Now IBM security researchers have warned of another serious vulnerability that impacts over 55% of all Androids.
Another day, another big security hole in Android that has been patched by Google but the patch will never make it down to most devices because of incompetent manufacturers and carriers. What were we saying about iPhone vs Android again? Verizon Tests 10-Gig [Internet] Verizon said it has successfully tested NG-PON2 FTTP technology that, it claims, could "easily provide" symmetrical speeds of 10 Gbps [internet] to business and residential customers.
It’ll probably cost a lot of money, but at least progress is being made in building faster internet connections, thanks to pressure from Google Fiber and the competition between Verizon and others. One has to wonder, though, whether eventually wireless technology will be fast enough to make all of these fiber cables pointless for most people. You don’t really need that kind of bandwidth unless you’re sending 4K video down the pipe, and we’re still a few years off from having enough 4K content to really justify all of the increased costs. So with wireless technology getting faster and municipal Wi-Fi filling in the gaps for smaller cities, the only thing holding wireless back is the absurd data caps by all of the providers. | 
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