http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerability_management/security/client/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=223200163 By Kelly Jackson Higgins DarkReading March 08, 2010 Automobile giant Ford Motor this year will debut vehicles with built-in WiFi -- along with enhanced security features to prevent data breaches via its new cars. Ford has offered the so-called Sync technology service it co-developed with Microsoft in most of its Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury vehicles since 2008. The technology lets drivers run their Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones and digital media players via their vehicles and use voice commands to operate them, for instance. The automaker announced today that the second generation of its Sync technology -- due out later this year and to include a full Windows CE operating system with a new driver interface called MyFordTouch -- will come with a built-in browser and secured WiFi access. It will first debut in the 2011 Ford Edge and 2011 MKX Lincoln, and later, in the 2010 Ford Focus. "We really began to focus on the security side when we began launching Sync, and it was [originally] for working with phones and media players," says Jim Buczkowski, director of Ford electronics and electrical systems engineering. "Now we're extending that system connectivity to include WiFi as another data path for customers in their vehicles ... and we're extending that security model for protecting WiFi." [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Tue Mar 09 2010 - 08:50:08 PST
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