On January 13, international media reported that a 19-year-old German hacker, David Colombo, claimed to have used computer technology to discover loopholes in tesla car systems, and that he had successfully controlled 25 Tesla cars in 13 countries around the world through loopholes.
Fortunately, after testing this vulnerability, the young man did not use it to do bad things, but informed Tesla of this vulnerability. In fact, as early as last year, Tesla Motors had an incident in which many car owners were locked out of the door due to the disconnection of the internet, and Zhou Hongyi, the founder of 360, expressed his views on this matter.
Zhou Hongyi said that intelligent networked cars must be connected to the cloud servers of car companies when driving, and they must be driven by continuously uploading driving status data to accept remote commands. This is not so much an opinion as it is the advice of an expert dedicated to the study of various cybersecurity systems. In addition, Zhou Hongyi also said that the car door can not be opened may not have much impact, but if the car is attacked by a hacker organization, it may cause a very bad impact.
Obviously, Zhou Hongyi's prediction did come true. In fact, 360 company for the network car safety has long been a very in-depth study, as early as December 2019, 360 company and Mercedes-Benz car cooperation, and at that time for Mercedes-Benz intelligent network car to repair 19 related potential vulnerabilities, it is worth noting that 360 company is the Mercedes-Benz brand in the world's first technology partner. In addition to foreign brands, 360 had cooperated with 70% of the country's mainstream automakers at that time, and millions of cars were thus secured.
Today, 360 is an expert in the safety of intelligent and connected vehicles. Not long ago, 360's security lab discovered multiple security vulnerabilities in the automotive operating system QNX, including remote code execution vulnerabilities that scored a severity score of 9.8 in the vulnerability scoring system. QNX, issued by BlackBerry, the largest operating system supplier in the automotive sector, now has a 75% market share, and the 360Sky-Go team has received the company's thanks for helping the system find multiple vulnerabilities for two consecutive years.
It is precisely because the 360 team is professional in the safety of intelligent connected cars, so Zhou Hongyi will anticipate when tesla owners are locked out of the door, Tesla cars may also have other network security risks. But now that it has happened and not had a bad impact, there is room for it to make up. Of course, we hope that Tesla can patch the loopholes as soon as possible, after all, the number of Tesla owners at home and abroad is very large.