A Tiny Piece of Tape Tricked Teslas Into Speeding Up 50 MPH

An MGM Resorts breach, natural gas ransomware, and more of the week's top security news...

Model Hacking ADAS to Pave Safer Roads for Autonomous Vehicles

ARCHIVED STORY Model Hacking ADAS to Pave Safer Roads for Autonomous Vehicles Steve Povolny · FEB 19, 2020 The last several years have been fascinating for those of us who have been eagerly observing the steady move towards autonomous driving. While semi-autonomous vehicles have existed for many...

Model Hacking ADAS to Pave Safer Roads for Autonomous Vehicles

ARCHIVED STORY Model Hacking ADAS to Pave Safer Roads for Autonomous Vehicles Steve Povolny · FEB 19, 2020 The last several years have been fascinating for those of us who have been eagerly observing the steady move towards autonomous driving. While semi-autonomous vehicles have existed for many...

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TL;DR How does the Tesla update its firmware? What did we find when reverse engineering the display and instrument cluster? Here’s the result of a couple of weeks work, working on a real vehicle that mostly worked after we had finished. Part 1: analysing the hardware, complete with a 14 layer PCB...

Reverse Engineering the Tesla Firmware Update Process

TL;DR How does the Tesla Model S update its firmware? What did we find when reverse engineering the display and instrument cluster? Here’s the result of a couple of weeks work, working on a real vehicle that mostly worked after we had finished. Part 1: analysing the hardware, complete with a 14...

Reverse Engineering Tesla Hardware

TL;DR How does the Tesla Model S update its firmware? What did we find when reverse engineering the display and instrument cluster? Here’s the result of a couple of weeks work, working on a real vehicle that mostly worked after we had finished. Part 1: analysing the hardware, complete with a 14...

Reverse Engineering the Tesla Firmware Update Process

TL;DR How does the Tesla update its firmware? What did we find when reverse engineering the display and instrument cluster? Here’s the result of a couple of weeks work, working on a real vehicle that mostly worked after we had finished. Part 1: analysing the hardware, complete with a 14 layer PCB...

Tesla Autopilot Duped By 'Phantom' Images

Researchers said that autopilot systems used by popular cars – including the Tesla Model X – can be fooled into detecting fake images, projected by drones on the road or on surrounding billboards, as real. Attackers could potentially leverage this design hole to trigger the systems to brake or...

Advanced Obfuscation Marks Widespread Info-Stealing Campaign

A large-scale spam campaign bent on spreading info-stealing malware is applying advanced obfuscation techniques to get around security scanning and maximize infection rates. According to Lastline researchers, a large botnet is distributing malicious rich text format RTF documents that act as...

This Week in Security News: The First Patch Tuesday Update of 2020 and Pwn2Own Vancouver Announced

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about a major crypto-spoofing bug impacting Windows 10 that has been fixed as part of Microsoft’s January Patch Tuesday update. Also,...

The vulnerability of the DxgkDdiEscape function in the Display Driver graphics processor drivers of NVIDIA GeForce, Quadro, and Tesla allows a hacker to cause a system failure.

The vulnerability of the DxgkDdiEscape function in the Display Driver Graphics Processor NVIDIA GeForce, Quadro, and Tesla driver exists due to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause system failures...

An Alarming Windows Bug, a Triumph for Tesla, and More News

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Trump's Ukraine Delusion, Tesla's Ford Showdown, and More News

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CVE-2019-13581

An issue was discovered in Marvell 88W8688 Wi-Fi firmware before version p52, as used on Tesla Model S/X vehicles manufactured before March 2018, via the Parrot Faurecia Automotive FC6050W module. A heap-based buffer overflow allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitra...

CVE-2019-13582

An issue was discovered in Marvell 88W8688 Wi-Fi firmware before version p52, as used on Tesla Model S/X vehicles manufactured before March 2018, via the Parrot Faurecia Automotive FC6050W module. A stack overflow could lead to denial of service or arbitrary code execution...

CVE-2019-13582

An issue was discovered in Marvell 88W8688 Wi-Fi firmware before version p52, as used on Tesla Model S/X vehicles manufactured before March 2018, via the Parrot Faurecia Automotive FC6050W module. A stack overflow could lead to denial of service or arbitrary code execution...

Heap overflow

An issue was discovered in Marvell 88W8688 Wi-Fi firmware before version p52, as used on Tesla Model S/X vehicles manufactured before March 2018, via the Parrot Faurecia Automotive FC6050W module. A heap-based buffer overflow allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitra...

Stack overflow

An issue was discovered in Marvell 88W8688 Wi-Fi firmware before version p52, as used on Tesla Model S/X vehicles manufactured before March 2018, via the Parrot Faurecia Automotive FC6050W module. A stack overflow could lead to denial of service or arbitrary code execution...

CVE-2019-13582

An issue was discovered in Marvell 88W8688 Wi-Fi firmware before version p52, as used on Tesla Model S/X vehicles manufactured before March 2018, via the Parrot Faurecia Automotive FC6050W module. A stack overflow could lead to denial of service or arbitrary code execution...

CVE-2019-13582

CVE-2019-13582 affects Marvell 88W8688 Wi‑Fi firmware (pre‑p52) used in Tesla Model S/X, via the Parrot Faurecia FC6050W module. The issue is a stack overflow in the Wi‑Fi firmware that can lead to denial of service or arbitrary code execution. Connected documents confirm the affected component a...