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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. (http://on.ft.com/1DsTIQJ)
"We shut the car down when it was driving initially at a low
speed of five miles per hour," the newspaper quoted Rogers as
saying. "All the screens go black, the music turns off and the
handbrake comes on, lurching it to a stop."
The hack will be detailed at cybersecurity conference Def Con in
Las Vegas on Friday, the FT said.
Tesla is issuing a patch, which all drivers will have by
Thursday, to fix the flaws, the FT said.
Tesla could not be immediately reached for comment outside
regular U.S. business hours.
The hack on Tesla follows a similar attack on Fiat Chrysler's
Jeep Cherokee last month that prompted the company to recall 1.4
million vehicles in the United States.
(Reporting by Sagarika Jaisinghani in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil
D'Silva)
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