Meet the start-up trying to keep hackers from hijacking your car

After last year’s high-profile corporate data breaches, hundreds of start-ups have popped up with newfangled ways of spotting hackers within the electronic noise, usually by looking for virtual “threat signatures” pulled from expensive databases.

But Vienna-based PFP Cybersecurity is trying something different: tracking tiny changes in power usage and radio waves emitted by hardware. When something out-of-the ordinary happens—like an unexplained spike in power coming off a computer chip— PFP’s system raises a red flag that something might be wrong.

“Instead of dealing with hundreds of millions of [threat] signatures you go back to the fundamentals – the laws of physics,” said Chief Executive Steven Chen. “When a hacker moves electrons we can see them.” For the full article click here 

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