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[Argus in PR Newswire] Argus announces breakthrough technology for automotive cyber security

Nov 16, 2016 |

Argus Cyber Security, the world’s largest independent automotive cyber security company, today announced further expansion of its In-Vehicle Network Protection suite with its new groundbreaking ECU Fingerprinting technology. This technology makes it much harder for hackers to perform successful cyber-attacks on vehicles. For the first time, it is now possible to identify and trace to their source messages that were maliciously initiated by an unauthorized or wrong electronic control unit (ECU). Tests have shown this technology to be highly accurate at identifying malicious messages with zero false positives. This exceptional ability, which examines the physical attributes of an ECU is currently unparalleled in the automotive industry and is further testament to how Argus, through its award-winning cyber research team, is enabling secure connectivity in automobiles. ECU Fingerprinting pinpoints a malicious message and the ECU that triggered it. This vital information was to date unattainable due to the nature of the communication protocol in the in-vehicle network. Read more on PR Newswire...

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[mPrest in The Jerusalem Post] Rafael seeks to bring Iron Dome technology to civilian market

Nov 16, 2016 |

Iron Dome might be known best for its precision in intercepting incoming rockets, but now one of the principal designers of the system is hoping to use that technology in the civilian market. Rafael Advanced Defense Systems subsidiary mPrest, located in Petah Tikva, is responsible for developing the algorithms that direct the missile defense system, but the underlying technology has a variety of other uses. Read more on The Jerusalem Post...

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[Zoomcar in Business Standard] How an American launched Zoomcar in India, and now plans to go international

Nov 16, 2016 |

In 2011, Greg Moran spent three months traveling across India, talking to thousands of people for what he says was primary research for his fledgling startup idea: to launch a car rental service in Asia’s fastest growing economy. The New York resident decided to marry his passion for environment and numbers, and launched Zoomcar in India – where less than 10% of city residents own cars, and public transport can often be a nightmare. Read more on Business Standard...

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[BioCatch in PR Newswire] NatWest deploys BioCatch behavioural biometrics technology to help combat fraud

Nov 16, 2016 | ,

BioCatch, the global leader in behavioural biometrics announced today the successful trial of its technology at NatWest. NatWest is one of the largest banks in the UK and serves over 14 million customers. The BioCatch technology has been deployed at the Bank since the start of 2016 within Coutts and with some business customers and continues to successfully prevent online fraud attempts, helping to protect customers. The next step of the plan is to pilot the technology with NatWest personal banking customers later in 2017. BioCatch’s system captures more than 500 points of behaviour such as hand-eye coordination, pressure, hand tremors, navigation, scrolling and other finger movements amongst other things to create a unique user profile. Via continuous authentication, it is also able to recognise anomalies in behaviours from the point of login and throughout the entire session. This allows BioCatch to distinguish the normal human behaviour of an authorised user from that of an unauthorised user, as well as to recognise automated BOTs, RATS, malware and other malicious account takeover attacks, where the victim is typically unaware that...

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[Maniv Portfolio Company in TechCrunch] Nexar’s vehicle-to-vehicle network will use dash cam AI to prevent accidents

Nov 15, 2016 |

Cars are on their way to pooling their collective smarts, but vehicles that have built-in communication tech and intelligence processing are still a ways off for many. Nexar is a startup hoping to make collective collision avoidance a more achievable reality in the short-term, using their Ai-based dash cam app. Nexar’s app is available for iOS and Android, and uses your phone’s camera to monitor the road ahead as you drive, recording events when it detects danger using its artificial intelligence engine. The video of the event is then automatically uploaded to the cloud for later reference, and the phone also logs sensor data to help recreate a simulation of what happened to your vehicle at the moment of the incident. Read more on TechCrunch...

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