Positioning System Spoof Lash-up Can Reroute Robotic Automobiles Into Opposing Traffic

Bad mojo written up at Ars Technica and The Wall Street Journal, in the GPS realm. It's high time for the manufacturers to step up remediation efforts targeting these pernicious position system flaws. Until the appropos remediations and mitigations are firmly ensconced within the hardware and software under scruitny, no human should trust autonomous-navigating conveyances, unless - of course - you are actively testing those systems.

"“Our study demonstrated the initial feasibility of manipulating the road navigation system through targeted GPS spoofing,” the researchers, from Virginia Tech, China’s University of Electronic Sciences and Technology, and Microsoft Research, wrote in an 18-page paper (emphasis added). “The threat becomes more realistic as car makers are adding autopilot features so that human drivers can be less involved (or completely disengaged).”" - via Ars Technica Security Editor Extraordinaire Dan Goodin

Macie the Discoverer →

News that Macie The Discoverer has arrived in your S3 bucket... Data Security Automation - potentially - at it's finest? You be the judge.

Throwback Thursday, The Clockwork Rover →

...and now Ladies and Gentlemen, Girls and Boys, Behold, the phenomenal Clockwork Rover. Due to the extremes of both temperature and pressure on the Venusian surface, NASA must revert to automaton-like machinations from bygone era's, in this case, clockwork-like machinery to increase the longevity of the 'bots it sends to the hottest planet in the solar system. Enjoy.

DARPA Visits Planet Meta →

Superb post at DARPA, detailing the Agency's plans to go Meta... Today's Must Read.

iPhone, Halved →

Ed Catmull, Ph.D. proudly displaying the Pixar animation render farm in 1995. It is rather important to note the farm - as depicted - can now be calculated to be the equivalent to 1/2 of a iPhone 6's computational capability.

Credit to the Friday, August 26, 2016 High Scalability blog post for jogging my memory of a time when this photo was published 26 years ago. Astonishing isn't it.

Le Bots Émerger →

La Fin de Twitter est Proche, otherwise known as The End of Twitter, Inc. (NasdaqGS: TWTR) is Near... via The Harvard Business Review, and written by Alexandera Samuel, comes this tell-all on the rise of 'bots infecting Twitter, and not necessarily the 'bots you may think. Entitled "How Bots Took Over Twitter". Congratulations, you have discovered Today's Must Read.

All Your Automatonic Security Are Not Belong To Us →

Well crafted thought piece appearing over at Darkmatters, a Norse blog, written by the inimitable Pete Herzog, regaling us with the truth of robotic security. Today's MustRead.

"The problem is that automating security creates a paradox. You see, in security, automation works best as a tool and not a wielder of tools. You see, your security automation is in charge of making periodic and systematic changes to controls and then verifying those changes." via Darkmatters, a Norse Security blog, by Pete Herzog

DevSecOps Edition, 10+ Hours of Information Security + DevOps Video →

The kind folks at DevOps have made their video collection of HD quality Security DevOps content from RSAC 2015 available (with the only catch of a registration form). Highly recommended.

'DevOps Connect was co-produced by DevOps.com and Sonatype, through the Nexus Community Project. The day started with a keynote delivered by Gene Kim and Joshua Corman, setting the stage for 13 more presentations.' - via Devops' Alan Shimel

Wetware Outnumbered →

via Maria Korolov, writing at CSO, tells the tale of software robotic entities, who now, apparently outnumber wetware entities on the interwebs.

NetFlix Unleashed FIDO →

via Netflix's Jason Chan, comes word of a OSS automation effort targeting security related events, and actions thereo. Monikered FIDO or more accurately 'Fully Integrated Defense Operation' the system ostensibly serves as an orchestration layer for automated response activities, in the case of security event triggers. Comprised of a well thought-out architecture of infrastructure components, an encapsulated orchestration, correlation and scoring engine coupled to a threat intelligence system... But, I'll leave the full explanation in the obviously capable hands of Netflix's Security Team; examine. if you will, FIDO at GitHub. And, because it's Open Source Software, the security community at large can reap the benefits of this superalitve effort. Outstanding.