Hyundai, Kia, Subaru sales advance 7th straight month; Toyota slips

<p>U.S. light-vehicle sales are forecast to rise 3.9 to 7.2 percent in February, analysts say, with sharply higher fleet deliveries once again offsetting flat retail volume.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/sales/february-...yota-slips

Mercedes says Level 4 hands-free automated driving ‘doable' by decade's end

<p>Mercedes-Benz's Level 3 Drive Pilot system was self-certified for use in Nevada this year, but the automaker is aiming for an even more sophisticated Level 4 technology.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/mobility-report...ecades-end

VW's Russia plant to be sold to local dealer group, report says

<p>Russia's Avilon dealership group is poised to buy VW Group's Kaluga factory, Moscow-based business news site RBC reported on Wednesday, citing two unidentified sources.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/automakers-supp...aler-group

CDK ‘fit and focus' strategy continues with massive employee outsourcing plan

<p>The dealership management system giant plans to contract out certain key functions to Genpact, which will employ many of CDK's affected employees.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/dealers/cdk-mas...plan-works

Volkswagen board to discuss U.S. assembly plant on Friday, report says

<p>The factory is reportedly a new plant for the Scout brand, which Volkswagen has said will be designed, engineered and manufactured in the U.S. with production due to start in 2026.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/manufacturing/v...eport-says

Vroom reports $25M net income, but fallen sales, revenues in Q4

<p>Vroom said its revenue tumbled to $209.3 million in the quarter ended Dec. 31, down 78 percent compared with the year-earlier period.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/dealers/vroom-q...ues-shrink

GoDaddy Discloses Multi-Year Security Breach Causing Malware Installations and Sourc

Web hosting services provider GoDaddy on Friday disclosed a multi-year security breach that enabled unknown threat actors to install malware and siphon source code related to some of its services.
The company attributed the campaign to a "sophisticated and organized group targeting hosting services."
GoDaddy said in December 2022, it received an unspecified number of customer complaints about

https://thehackernews.com/2023/02/godadd...urity.html

Twitter Limits SMS-Based 2-Factor Authentication to Blue Subscribers Only

Twitter has announced that it's limiting the use of SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) to its Blue subscribers.
"While historically a popular form of 2FA, unfortunately we have seen phone-number based 2FA be used – and abused – by bad actors," the company said.
"We will no longer allow accounts to enroll in the text message/SMS method of 2FA unless they are Twitter Blue subscribers."

https://thehackernews.com/2023/02/twitte...actor.html

Fortinet Issues Patches for 40 Flaws Affecting FortiWeb, FortiOS, FortiNAC, and Fort

Fortinet has released security updates to address 40 vulnerabilities in its software lineup, including FortiWeb, FortiOS, FortiNAC, and FortiProxy, among others.
Two of the 40 flaws are rated Critical, 15 are rated High, 22 are rated Medium, and one is rated Low in severity.
Top of the list is a severe bug residing in the FortiNAC network access control solution (CVE-2022-39952, CVSS score: 9.8)

https://thehackernews.com/2023/02/fortin...flaws.html

Samsung Introduces New Feature to Protect Users from Zero-Click Malware Attacks

Samsung has announced a new feature called Message Guard that comes with safeguards to protect users from malware and spyware via what's referred to as zero-click attacks.
The South Korean chaebol said the solution "preemptively" secures users' devices by "limiting exposure to invisible threats disguised as image attachments."
The security feature, available on Samsung Messages and Google

https://thehackernews.com/2023/02/samsun...re-to.html