Cybersecurity researchers said they took control of a Tesla Motors Inc. Model S car and turned it off at low speed, one of six significant flaws they found that could allow hackers to take control of the vehicle, the Financial Times reported.Kevin Mahaffey, chief technology officer of cybersecurity firm Lookout, and Marc Rogers, principal security researcher at Cloudflare, said they decided to hack a Tesla car because the company has a reputation for understanding software than most automakers, the FT said.
"We shut the car down when it was driving initially at a low speed of five miles per hour," Rogers told the paper. "All the screens go black, the music turns off and the handbrake comes on, lurching it to a stop."
Read Article