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 ...

As more and more technology gets crammed into our automobiles, replacing once simple mechanical systems with electronics and other such wizardry, hackers and people much smarter than ourselves are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Late last week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk fired off an email to employees saying that the company had a saboteur in its ranks. The email was the latest turn in an us-versus-them narrative that has seen Musk ...

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 ...

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