Tesla Issues Fix After Model S Hack

“The easiest way companies can stay ahead of hackers is to acknowledge that their developers can’t be expected to be experts across every subspecialty of the development chain, and utilize security-as-a-service platforms that keep up with the vulnerabilities for them”, he said.

Luckily Tesla said that it had already addressed all the vulnerabilities in its vehicles by working with the researchers to automatically update its cars.

But the week wasn’t over for Tesla yet. For the following year, however, Tesla is looking at being able to produce between 1,600 and 1,800 Model S and Model X vehicles per week. Now it looks like two other researchers have found a way to hack into the Tesla Model S.

Until this week, a deranged mechanic could remotely hack and hijack a Tesla Model S vehicle long after it left the shop.

Def Con hackers’ conference is just one week away, which is why Kevin Mahaffey from Lookout and Marc Rogers, the main security researcher at Cloudflare have made an interesting experiment to show that cars’ computers must be improved.

Tesla is giving a patches, which generally all people can have by Thursday, to set… They even managed to shut the motor off while it was moving at low speed.

 Rogers said that they have shut the auto down when it was being driven at a low speed of five miles an hour initially.

Tesla also spent more on research and development.

“Our security team works closely with the security research community to ensure that we continue to protect our systems against vulnerabilities by constantly stress-testing, validating, and updating our safeguards”, a spokeswoman said. This means cars can be as vulnerable as computers or smartphones to hacks, but with greater consequences.

Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas posed the question to Musk in an earnings call Wednesday afternoon, noting that Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has reportedly said he would want to buy Tesla’s self-driving cars when they are released.

But he said the automaker needed to bolster individual system security, as the researchers took full control over the car’s entertainment system by breaching each system individually and using that access to get into another system.

Tesla was lacking in this area, Mahaffey said, adding that the company’s recent security update should help rectify the problem.