Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
San Francisco – Uber Technologies Inc., the taxi giant, is looking forward to making self-driving cars. To prevent their cars from being hacked, the company has hired two of the top vehicle security researchers. The two geeks, namely Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, are security researchers who earlier showed the safety flaws in autonomous cars. Miller, a Twitter Inc. employee, and Valasek worked at a security firm, IOActive, will both quit their jobs and start working for Uber Technologies Inc. starting next week. The company plans to post them at their Pittsburgh facility, where they undergo research on self-driving cars and robotics. The company stated that these two people will report directly to Joe Sullivan, Uber’s chief security officer, and John Flynn, chief information security officer, to bring forward an extremely secure model of autonomous cars. The Miller and Valasek duo came into the limelight this month after they were able to hack into a self-driving Jeep Cherokee and brought it to a halt on St. Louis highway by wirelessly hacking through its entertainment system. They proved it to the world that how unsafe it would be to rely on the self-driving cars, and also the risks they possess for […]
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