• GM to pay $900 million over ignition switches
    • 17/09/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    General Motors has agreed to pay $900 million (£581 million) and sign a deferred-prosecution agreement to end a US government investigation into its handling of an ignition-switch flaw linked to 124 deaths. The arrangement means GM will be charged criminally with hiding the defect from regulators and in the [...]
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  • Weakness exposed in OnStar app
    • 31/07/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    A researcher is advising drivers not to use a mobile app for General Motors OnStar vehicle communications system, saying hackers can exploit a security flaw in the product to unlock cars and start engines remotely. Hacker Samy Kamkar posted a video on Thursday saying he had figured out a way to ‘locate, unlock [...]
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