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A U.S. federal court jury has found former Uber Chief Security Officer Joseph Sullivan guilty of not disclosing a 2016 breach of customer and driver records to regulators and attempting to cover up the incident. Sullivan has been convicted on two counts: One for obstructing justice by not reporting the incident and another for misprision. […]
The City of London Police on Friday revealed that it has arrested a 17-year-old teenager from Oxfordshire on suspicion of hacking. “On the evening of Thursday 22 September 2022, the City of London Police arrested a 17-year-old in Oxfordshire on suspicion of hacking,” the agency said, adding “he remains in police custody.” The department said […]
Uber, in an update, said there is “no evidence” that users’ private information was compromised in a breach of its internal computer systems that was discovered late Thursday. “We have no evidence that the incident involved access to sensitive user data (like trip history),” the company said. “All of our services including Uber, Uber Eats, […]
Uber’s computer network has been hacked on Thursday, leading the company to take some of its internal communications and engineering systems offline. Reports say, an 18 year old hacker who was working on his cybersecurity skills for several years, sent images of email, cloud storage and code repositories to cybersecurity researchers and The New York […]
India is pushing hard to minimize the number of pollution-emitting vehicles on roads, according to a report by Reuters, and the Indian government has ordered cab-aggregators like Ola and Uber to electrify at least 40% of their fleet by 2026. The government wants the cab companies to start the process of adding electric vehicles to […]
When we think of booking a cab in the US, India or anywhere else in the world, a common name pops up in our minds (and smartphones) is Uber. Incepted a decade back, Uber’s presence as a cab service is omnipresent, and we don’t exactly seem to be regretting relying on it — at least […]
Ride-hailing app Uber entered the food delivery business in India two years ago. Now, it seems like the app didn’t like the flavor of the segment as it is soon to wrap up its food delivery business, Uber Eats in the country, as reported by sources familiar with it. According to a report by the […]
Uber was forced to withdraw their autonomous cars from roads in 2018 following a fatal accident in which a cyclist was killed. Now, reports have emerged that Uber is trying to explore autonomous bikes and scooters. As reported by TechCrunch, Uber is planning to integrate its autonomous technology in its bike and scooter rental program. Not […]
Texas-based Bell Helicopter (now a tech company) has showcased its first-ever electric flying car, christened Bell Nexus, at this year’s ongoing CES tradeshow. The new Nexus hybrid-electric car is based on the hybrid-electric prolusion system and utilizes six ducted fans to land and take off vertically from a launchpad or rooftop. The idea to adapt the hybrid propulsion […]
Researchers claim that this incident compromised the company’s Amazon S3 buckets Uber Technologies decided not to disclose a data breach in 2016, a decision that keeps bringing bad news for the transport service platform. According to reports of experts in digital forensics, Uber has been fined for an amount of $1.2M USD, amount established by […]
For experts on the subject, Uber’s silence was a “clear betrayal to consumer confidence” Uber will pay about $148M USD to conduct a nationwide investigation into a data theft raised in 2016, an event in which a hacker managed to gain access to information belonging to 57 million of drivers and passengers. The stolen information includes […]
It looks like Uber has found a probable cause of the fatal car accident that took place some weeks ago. According to a report from The Information, the problem was with the software of its self-driving technology that decided how a car should react after detecting an object on the road. As a result of […]
On Sunday evening, a self-driving Uber car hit and killed a woman pedestrian who was crossing a road. The incident took place in Tempe, Arizona, which has become a hub for testing self-driving technology. The victim of the mishap has been identified as 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg. She was taken to a local area hospital where she […]
“There is no need for a novelty 2FA if it doesn’t actually serve a purpose. Uber has ignored a security bug that can allow an attacker to hack into user accounts by bypassing two-factor authentication because the ride sharing company says the flaw “isn’t a particularly severe” issue. Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a vital part […]
On Tuesday, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowashahi revealed in a blog post what the ride-hailing company was hiding from the public since October 2016, i.e., for almost a year. No, it’s not their dream of flying taxis. He said that a hacker duo compromised a third-party cloud server the company was using. The incident exposed the personal […]
The business allowed 57 people to drive vehicles although they required valid driver’s licenses or had performed other offenses that would have excluded them. The Colorado Public Utilities Commission said its examination found violations that combined 12 drivers with felony convictions, 17 drivers with major moving-vehicle violations and three drivers with a type of driver’s […]
To improve functionality between Uber’s app and the Apple Watch, Apple allowed Uber to use a powerful tool that could record a user’s iPhone screen, even if Uber’s app was only running in the background, security researchers told Gizmodo. After the researchers discovered the tool, Uber said it is no longer in use and will […]
An Italian expert discovered a critical Improper Authentication vulnerability affecting the UBER platform that allowed password reset for any account. The Italian security expert Vincenzo C. Aka @Procode701 has discovered 7 months ago a critical vulnerability in UBER platform that allowed password reset for any Uber account. The researcher reported the ‘Improper Authentication’ vulnerability through the company […]
We always need to be alert while sending out emails especially when sending the same email using the Carbon Copy (Cc) option on your email account’s address bar. If you accidentally send out Cc emails, you must be prepared for shocking outcomes. The news that we are going to share with you explains the dangers […]
A security expert discovered a flaw in a ransomware protection service that opened Uber service, and many others, to cyber attacks. The Russian penetration tester Vladimir Ivanov from the security firm Positive Technologies has discovered a vulnerability in anti-ransomware backup service Code42. The flaw could be exploited by attackers to steal data from the organizations using […]
The last update for the Uber app raises great concerns because it asks to track users’ location even when they’ve been dropped off and exited the program. The last update of the Uber App allows it to track the passengers’ locations even when they have been dropped off and the application is running in the […]