Reverse engineering Tesla Model 3 reveals vulnerabilities in firmware update mechanism

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Attackers could exploit vulnerabilities to upload malicious firmware onto the gateway and onto other ECUs

A security researcher claims to have discovered multiple security vulnerabilities in Tesla's firmware update mechanism after reverse engineering the display and instrument cluster of a Tesla Model ...

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