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When API Security Fails, Mobility Breaks: Lessons from 2025’s Cyber Incidents

With just over three months left in 2025, one thing is already clear. One of the weakest links in connected mobility is APIs. Oversights that looked minor on…

LARA DOEL

Strategic Product Marketing
  • Cybersecurity
  • Mobility API Security

Securing Smart Mobility Requires a Fresh Approach to API Security

Connected vehicles and smart mobility services use numerous APIs. Everything from OEM-driven companion apps, infotainment systems, OTA servers, telematics servers, and EV charging management or…
DAR DIAMANT

Product Marketing Manager
September 1, 2022
  • Cybersecurity
  • EV Charging
  • VSOC

EV Charging Stations Cyber Vulnerabilities Could Be EVs Achilles Heel

Electric vehicles (EVs) are a critical pillar of the global automotive revolution we’re experiencing today. Over the next five years, the US government will invest…
GIUSEPPE SERIO

VP Market Development
August 23, 2022
  • Cybersecurity
  • Threat Intelligence

Upstream’s 1000th Automotive Cybersecurity Incident: Use NFC Card to Gain Control in 130 Seconds

As a part of Upstream’s ongoing effort to monitor, analyze the cyber threat landscape and assess the impact of automotive-related cybersecurity incidents and vulnerabilities, we…
ELAD ROBB

Director of Cyber Threat Intelligence
June 22, 2022
  • Cybersecurity
  • EV Charging

Charging Station’s Cybersecurity Risks Endanger EV Adoption

Automakers and consumers are experiencing a breakthrough in electronic vehicle (EV) adoptability. Wide-spread easily accessible charging station networks are quelling range anxiety and replacing it…
RAFI SPIEWAK

Content Marketing Manager
June 2, 2022
  • Cybersecurity
  • Threat Intelligence

Protecting Vehicles Requires a Fresh Outlook on Product Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is an ever-transforming realm. As vehicles become significantly more connected, the threat landscape increases exponentially. In the race between threat actors and security teams,…
DANIEL BLUM

AutoThreat® Product Manager
May 25, 2022
  • Cybersecurity
  • VSOC

Cybersecurity for Connected Vehicles: From Cost Centre to Value Centre (Part 2)

This blog is part of a series on the monetization of connected vehicles through cloud-based agentless cybersecurity tools, written by Ric Vicari, Upstream’s UK-based VP…
RIC VICARI

VP EMEA
May 16, 2022
  • Cybersecurity
  • VSOC

Cybersecurity for Connected Vehicles: From Cost Centre to Value Centre (Part 1)

This blog is part of a series on the monetization of connected vehicles through cloud-based agentless cybersecurity tools, written by Ric Vicari, Upstream’s UK-based VP…
RIC VICARI

VP EMEA
May 10, 2022
  • Compliance
  • Cybersecurity

Keeping Commercial Vehicles Rolling Amidst Climbing Cyber Threats

Today’s rising cybersecurity threats are not enough to break the will of the most advanced fleets- but they are enough to impact logistics. The last…
RAFI SPIEWAK

Content Marketing Manager
May 9, 2022
  • Threat Intelligence
  • VSOC

How Hackers Gain access to Your Vehicle

In modern connected vehicles, car hacking remains a top-of-mind threat. 2021 saw theft via manipulation of the keyless entry system increase significantly including a 93%…
RAFI SPIEWAK

Content Marketing Manager
April 12, 2022