![]() Its role isn’t clearly defined, but it appears to be responsible for the development of software worms to be injected into a variety of devices. It was formed late in 2017, and about half of the 150 budgeted positions have been filled to date. ZITis stands for “Zentrale Stelle für Informationstechnik im Sicherheitsbereich”, which translates to something like “Central office for Information Technology in the Security Field”. Netzpolitik 21 March 2019, “ Staatstrojaner: ZITiS will Autos hacken” Systems that touch the direct physical world like this need better fail-safe defaults. This is a reliability issue that turns into a safety issue. Penman took an Uber home, while Reid walked from the grocery store back to her apartment. Others, including Tina Penman in Portland, Ore., and Heather Reid in Cambridge, abandoned their Zipcar. Some, like Jones, stayed with the inoperative cars. ![]() One user who tweeted about issues with a Zipcar vehicle listed his location as Toronto. “We were just waiting and waiting for the call back,” he said.Ĭustomers in other states, including New York, California, and Oregon, reported a similar problem. Sometimes is meant they couldn’t get the cars they were already driving to work:Īndrew Jones of Roxbury was stuck on hold with customer service for at least a half-hour while he and his wife waited inside a Zipcar that would not turn back on after they stopped to fill it up with gas. That didn’t just mean people couldn’t get cars they reserved. ![]() Last Saturday, Zipcar had a system outage: “an outage experienced by a third party telecommunications vendor disrupted connections between the company’s vehicles and its reservation software.” This isn’t a security story, but it easily could have been. ![]()
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