White Hat Hacker Accesses Teslas | Avast

Nineteen-year-old David Columbo, a security researcher in Germany, was able to take over most of the functions of more than 25 Teslas around the world by hacking into their third-party software. Checking the security of the network ports from a potential client’s company, Columbo happened upon TeslaMate, an open source, self-hosted data logger for Tesla. Exploring further, Columbo was able to run commands on specific Teslas such as “disable Sentry Mode,” “unlock the doors,” “open the windows,” and even “start …

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