Electric carmaker Tesla has once again challenged hackers to find bugs in its connected cars. Elon Musk's company is returning to its annual hacking competition called "Pwn20wn" to be held in Vancouver in March. Some Model 3 cars and $1 million in cash will be the prizes.
In March of last year, a team of hackers won a Tesla Model 3 and $35,000 for hacking into its systems. Amat Cama and Richard Zhu of the team codenamed “Fluoroacetate” demonstrated a vulnerability in the system during the hacking competition. The hackers targeted the infotainment system in the Tesla Model 3.
According to the electric vehicle manufacturer, such hacking events test as well as improve its security systems .
Hackers have also demonstrated how they could trick a Tesla Model S into entering the wrong lane using a method called an “adversarial attack,” a way of manipulating a Machine Learning model.
