Tesla Motors chief technology officer JB Straubel appeared at Def Con last week to thank the hackers who uncovered vulnerabilities in Model S electric car software. And, since he was a newbie at the ...

Tesla Wednesday sued an ex-employee accused of hacking its manufacturing operating system and stealing company data. But that ex-employee is fighting back, saying he's being targeted by Tesla for ...

Researchers at the Technische Universität Berlin say they’ve found a way to enable free access to software that Tesla makes buyers pay for. The exploit isn’t one that a nefarious ne’er-do-well would ...

Tesla, the renowned electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer, continues to prioritize cybersecurity through incentivizing white hat hackers. Recently, the automaker rewarded the hackers $200,000 cash on top ...

A German teenager says he found a vulnerability in an app installed in some Teslas, which allowed him the ability to unlock doors, flash headlights and blast music. The hack highlights the relative ...

Cybersecurity researchers are winning hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and prizes in the Pwn2Own competition, discovering previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used products like Adobe ...

More and more modern vehicles use internet-facing and connected features in the name of convenience. The reality is that the convenience of these features can actually present a whole new attack ...

There are interesting subsets within the group of people that composes Tesla Model S owners. They include celebrities, Drudge Report-reading conservatives, and, more relevant to this post, tech-savvy ...

Researchers at Technische Universität Berlin have used a technique called ‘voltage glitching’ to hack into a Tesla Model 3. The hack focused on the hardware supporting Tesla’s infotainment system, ...

Why does Tesla's risk statement call out would-be hackers and modders who might make changes to its car? It's a nod to the potential risks of hacking a two-ton mobile computing platform. Share on ...

DIY hacking has given us some great things -- a Raspberry Pi turned mini Super Nintendo, a Kinect sensor turned 3D archaeological scanner. But now, US basement hacker Rob Flickenger has given us ...

In the world of computers, competitions that challenge so-called “white hat” hackers are fairly common. Break into this system in X minutes and we’ll give you Y dollars. Rarely, though, does this ...