Tag: Uber

October 6, 2022

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 […]

September 16, 2022

Ride hailing giant Uber disclosed Thursday it’s responding to a cybersecurity incident involving a breach of its network and that it’s in touch with law enforcement authorities. The New York Times first reported the incident. The company pointed to its […]

June 26, 2020

They are among 11 measures Secretary of State Alex Padilla certified on Thursday for the Nov. 3 ballot. Others include two constitutional amendments approved by the Legislature, which would overturn the state’s ban on affirmative action and restore the voting […]

November 23, 2017

The theft of the personal data of 57 million Uber riders and drivers highlights how vulnerable we make ourselves when we install apps on our mobile phones and tablet computers. What happened? Uber chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi said Tuesday that […]

November 22, 2017

Ride-hailing service Uber Technologies revealed Tuesday that the company suffered a breach of 57 million Uber user accounts in 2016. According to reports, Uber then attempted to cover up the incident by paying $100,000 to attackers to keep the hack […]

April 12, 2017

Two years ago, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek pulled off a demonstration that shook the auto industry, remotely hacking a Jeep Cherokee via its internet connection to paralyze it on a highway. Since then, the two security researchers have been […]

January 4, 2017

When it comes to privacy, folks have learned to watch Uber like a hawk. This turns out to be useful even when Uber (apparently) turns out to be innocent. Case in point: the way Uber’s iOS app (3.222.4 and higher) […]

December 2, 2016

Last year, Uber gave us a heads-up about its new privacy policy and how it had given itself permission to routinely track our locations even after we’ve left the car, following us as we sally forth into businesses, cross the […]

November 28, 2016

A series of vulnerabilities in UberCENTRAL, a portal Uber started during the summer to help businesses facilitate rides for customers, could have leaked the names, phone numbers, email addresses, and unique ID of all Uber users. Kevin Roh, a student […]

March 1, 2016

The world has gone mobile. With 68 percent of Americans owning a smartphone of some kind according to the Pew Research Center, staying connected on the go has obviously become a major part of everyday life. But there is a dark side […]

October 14, 2015

#uber on Wednesday confirmed that a software slip briefly exposed #personal data of hundreds of #us drivers. The controversial ride-sharing company said that it stomped out the bug within a half-hour of getting word of the problem from a driver […]

September 10, 2015

Self-driving cars may be the future of transportation – it’s possible that eventually they could be safer than vehicles with human drivers. But autonomous vehicles are going to need more and better defenses against the threat of #hackers and cyber-#attacks. […]

September 6, 2015

Uber has tweaked one of the features in its app after it was shown to let sensitive trip data become publicly accessible through Google. The feature lets Uber customers share their ETA, via SMS, with friends and family during a […]

June 24, 2015

A leading privacy group has asked the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to put the brakes on Uber’s upcoming new privacy plan – a plan that sets the ride-hailing app maker up to collect even more customer data than it […]

June 15, 2015

A hacker has forced Uber to take its online petition site down after exploiting a vote-spamming flaw which he said was “super easy for the developer of the website to prevent”. The hacker, going by “Austin”, found the flaw on […]