Mystery Drone Sightings Lead to FAA Ban Despite No Detected Threats

It's been a busy year in cybersecurity, but it's not over yet. This week, we revealed how hackers figured out how to "jailbreak" digital license plates--which are legally issued in at least a couple of states and are valid across the US--allowing them to change the license plate number to basically anything. That means someone with this capability can avoid tolls and tickets, or even change their plate to be the same as their enemy. While the company that makes the plates, Reviver, makes clear that doing this would be both illegal and a terms-of-service violation, we're guessing that the people who want to hide their car's credentials so they can speed all over town aren't too concerned about that. Staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are preparing for an uncertain future.