Tesla hired Apple’s OS security expert as connected cars are increasingly becoming a hacking risk

As big fans of Tesla, I thought I'd share this interesting article that gives some interesting insight into what the future of car security looks like. Check it out:

Tesla news not directly related to the Model 3 is hard to come by these days, but Electrek learned that Tesla recently hired Apple’s OS Security Manager for a similar role at the automaker. While safety in general has long been an important part of the automotive industry, IT security is just starting to become a factor as connected cars are increasingly becoming a hacking risk.
Consequently, Tesla is building an impressive IT security team led by Chris Evans, not Captain America but the former head of Google’s Project Zero, a team of hackers employed full-time by Google to find zero-day vulnerabilities.

The latest addition to the team is former long-time Apple engineer Aaron Sigel. He joined the Cupertino-company’s product security team back in 2004 and left in 2009 to form his own company. According to his LinkedIn profile, he came back to Apple in 2012 and until last month before joining Tesla, he was a manager on Apple’s OS security team.
Sigel is named as an inventor on several Apple patents related to system security. He is joining a growing security team at Tesla, along with Evans, it also includes two former WhiteHat Security engineers Kyle ‘Kos’ Osborn and Brennan Johnson. Some of the engineers are also part of Tesla’s ‘Red Team’, a group that challenges the organization to improve its effectiveness, like system penetration expert Yoni Ramon, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Tesla had a presence at several security conventions, like DEFCON, to recruit security and software engineers.

How to “hack” a Tesla Model S [Video]

At DEFCON in Las Vegas last year, hackers Kevin Mahaffey and Marc Rogers, revealed that they managed to hack a Tesla Model S by ripping off the dashboard, connecting a laptop and sending a software command to start the car – basically presenting an alternative to “hot-wiring” the vehicle.

Read Full Article Here: http://electrek.co/2016/04/04/tesla-apple-os-security-expert-hacker/ 

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