{"id":95512,"date":"2019-08-29T08:42:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T15:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/tesla-rolls-out-key-fob-security-update-for-model-s-to-address-risks-of-cloning"},"modified":"2019-08-29T08:42:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T15:42:58","slug":"tesla-rolls-out-key-fob-security-update-for-model-s-to-address-risks-of-cloning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/tesla-rolls-out-key-fob-security-update-for-model-s-to-address-risks-of-cloning","title":{"rendered":"Tesla rolls out Key Fob security update for Model S to address risks of cloning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-rolls-out-key-fob-security-update-for-model-s-to-address-risks-of-cloning2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As part of continuing efforts to ensure their vehicles are the safest cars on the road, Tesla\u2019s \u201cBug Bounty\u201d program gives awards to security researchers that uncover vulnerabilities in the company\u2019s various product systems. Perhaps one of the most impressive parts of that program, however, is Tesla\u2019s ability to remedy the flaws quickly. In the most recent example of their dedication to security, a Bug Bounty find from April this year is now being patched via an over-the-air (OTA) update in 2019.32.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, a Tesla Model S key fob was hacked by a team led by Lennert Wouters of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium (KU Leuven). The security flaw enabled would-be car thieves to clone a fob in less than two seconds, after which the vehicle could be driven off. Tesla subsequently offered a multi-part fix: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/tesla-model-s-model-x-90-percent-less-likely-to-be-stolen-hldi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PIN to Drive, a software update, and a new fob<\/a>. Wouters again found a very similar flaw in the new fob, but this time the fix only required an OTA update which patched both the vehicle software and the fob\u2019s configuration via radio waves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of continuing efforts to ensure their vehicles are the safest cars on the road, Tesla\u2019s \u201cBug Bounty\u201d program gives awards to security researchers that uncover vulnerabilities in the company\u2019s various product systems. Perhaps one of the most impressive parts of that program, however, is Tesla\u2019s ability to remedy the flaws quickly. In the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1492,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-security","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}