Keen Lab hackers managed to take control of Tesla vehicles again

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: the keyboard of geoff goodfellow <geoff () iconia com>
> Date: July 28, 2017 at 4:12:20 PM EDT
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>, Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Cc: ip <ip () listbox com>, "Peter G. Neumann" <neumann () csl sri com>
> Subject: Keen Lab hackers managed to take control of Tesla vehicles again
>
> Last year, a Chinese whitehat hacker group, the Keen Security Lab at Tencent, managed to remotely hack the Tesla 
> Model S through a malicious wifi hotspot.
>
> Tesla quickly pushed a fix through an over-the-air software update, but now the same research group has managed to 
> again gain control of Tesla’s vehicles.
>
> The hack involved tricking a Tesla drivers into accessing a malicious website through a wifi hotspot and then install 
> their own software in order to gain access to some of the car’s features – more importantly, the braking system.
>
> Tesla’s fix included adding code signing in order to prevent anyone else from uploading software on Tesla’s system, 
> but now Keen Lab says that they managed to by-pass the code signing with the latest round of vulnerabilities testing 
> on Tesla’s car.
>
> Here they list their new exploit this year:
>
> [SNIP]
>
> https://electrek.co/2017/07/28/tesla-hack-keen-lab/
>
>
> -- 
> Geoff.Goodfellow () iconia com
> living as The Truth is True
> http://geoff.livejournal.com  



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