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Empowering Tomorrow's Automotive SoftwareAI in Fuzz TestingAI is a hot topic within and outside of the workplace. In this episode, Zachariah (Zane) Pelletier, Service Manager for Enterprise and ICS Security Services in the Americas at ETAS is joined by Irina Nicolae, Research Scientist at the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, to talk about the use of AI in fuzz testing. After taking us through an overview of fuzz testing and challenges associated with it, Zane and Irina talk about the use of AI in fuzz testing. The two then take us through the history and current status of a project using AI in f...2025-07-1537 min
Empowering Tomorrow's Automotive SoftwareEnterprise Pen TestingIn this episode, ETAS experts Zachariah (Zane) Pelletier and Michael Scharl discuss enterprise testing, how it differs from embedded testing, and how they are starting to come together with the development of software-defined vehicles and increased external interfaces with the car (e.g., remote start apps). The conversation takes listeners through the realities of today’s vehicle having a broader attack surface, why OEMs need to understand this, and the importance of working together to bring knowledge and tools from enterprise and embedded testing together to secure our vehicles. During the discussion Zane and Michael reference an ar...2025-02-0429 min
Empowering Tomorrow's Automotive SoftwareExposing Truck-to-Truck Cyber WormsJake Jepson, Security Researcher, Red Balloon Security, joins Zachariah (Zane) Pelletier, Security Tester at ETAS, to talk about the research project he conducted as a student at Colorado State University to successfully hack a commercial truck. Jake takes us through how the project came to be, walks through the details leading up to the discovery of how electronic logging devices (ELDs) on commercial trucks may pose a grave cybersecurity threat and discusses the surprises he encountered along the way. You can see a video highlighting the successful attack here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwtTzk9ys202024-12-1642 min
Empowering Tomorrow's Automotive SoftwareDiscovery of a CVE in a Bluetooth StackIn this episode, Zachariah (Zane) Pelletier, Security Tester at ETAS, and Kevin Mitchell, Sr. Automotive Security Tester at ETAS, talk about CVE 2023-52709, a critical vulnerability in Texas Instruments’ BLE MCUs. The discussion takes us through the discovery by Kevin, working with Texas Instruments as they tried to reproduce the issue and the develop a remediation.They share a real-world scenario that could have occurred, why they pursued publicizing the vulnerability and advice to others that find themselves in a similar situation. It’s an amazing case study on a CVE – one that could impact a variety of ind...2024-10-2341 min