Tesla Motors Inc.’s Model S, which will be launched soon, is seemed to be most ‘riskless’ and secure car among all smart cars. It also contains a function to release rapid and wireless software updates. The new model is updated and modern but according to expert researchers, this model can also be hacked.
To discuss the matter “how to hack the smart car” Defcon invited 23 hackers in a conference in Paris last week, this year. Among them, two hackers, Marc Rogers and Kevin Mahaffey, accepted the challenge to hack the Tesla Model S, which is going to be launched in near future.
They elaborated in the conference that in the beginning, they opened the dashboard and remove two of the SD cards and then searched into the system. Nevertheless, they experienced various challenging situations. Around 90% of the time, their presentation was just about these risky situations regarding death. The expert hackers sustained their enthusiastic approach to crack the company’s software until they reach to the file named as “carkeys.tar”, with the help of this file, hackers will be able to start the car.
Finally, both of them got an ethernet port that allows a user to use Tesla car on-board network. They connected the car to the network switch, with the help of Virtual Private Network (VPN), connected to the internet, and then installed the firmware software, which gives the information about the passwords contained in the internal memory.
Afterwards, the security breakers established the Wi-Fi connection, to connect the vehicle with the Tesla Service Centers. Now it was just simple to cheat the company’s service network and bring a wireless network into the car. The software was founded by the hackers known as Qtvehicle, which gave access to all the functions present in most of the vehicles. They are able to control the locks, doors, windows and stop the vehicle at slow speed.
The acknowledgement came from the company during a press conference soon, “Our security group works intently with the security analysis group to make sure that we proceed to guard our methods towards vulnerabilities by continuously stress-testing, validating, and updating our safeguards,” an official statement, televised by the company regarding the hot issue.
Giant automobile companies, such as Fiat Chrysler and General Motors, are far behind, if compared to Tesla motors. The electric automotive producer is looking forward to be the most secure automobile organization among all and apart from the supposed development in “automotive trade” all over the world, the company is keen to raise its lead in this market with more potential additions and launching new models with master securities protected and kept away from the approach of hackers.
The hack in Tesla’s cars raised concerns and question marks among its management and customers. The company should adopt strategies to address the concerns.
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