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One of the biggest car manufacturer VW still in trouble with its diesel-emissions-related problems. A couple of months ago researchers realized that VolksWagen’s some diesel engines pump Nitrogen-Oxide to the air more than 40 times than as it should be, and to hide this VW…
One of the biggest car manufacturer VW still in trouble with its diesel-emissions-related problems. A couple of months ago researchers realized that VolksWagen’s some diesel engines pump Nitrogen-Oxide to the air more than 40 times than as it should be, and to hide this VW installed an emission software to its 11 million Volkswagen cars – half-million of them in the USA. How this software works; in the test mode cars are fully compliant with Federal Emission levels but when the car regularly drove, the computer switches to an another mode that is significantly changing the fuel pressure, injection timing, and exhaust-gas recirculation. This mode gives the car higher power and more range but at the same time causes heavier Nitrogen-Oxide emission ( NOx ) which can cause lung cancer.
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Rachel Kowalski
Rachel Kowalski is the Cybersecurity Analyst at TrendinTech, where she covers vulnerabilities, ransomware, supply chain attacks, nation-state operations and the security rules shaping organizations in the United States and Europe. Before moving into journalism she worked as a threat intelligence analyst at a security vendor and later reported for CyberScoop and the security desk at Wired, covering the SolarWinds compromise and the ransomware wave that hit hospitals and pipelines. Rachel holds a Master of Science in Cybersecurity from the Georgia Institute of Technology and attends Black Hat and DEF CON in Las Vegas each year, where she follows research from the security community. She writes to make risks and countermeasures understandable to people who are not specialists.
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