Cybersecurity
Teen Cyber Prodigy Stumbled Onto Flaw Letting Him Hijack Teslas
- Cybersecurity researcher began programming at 10 years old
- Flaws found in third-party software for Teslas can allow hacks
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David Colombo, a 19-year-old cybersecurity researcher in Germany, came upon the biggest discovery of his young career by accident.
He was performing a security audit for a French company when he noticed something unusual: a software program on the company’s network that exposed all the data about the chief technology officer’s Tesla Inc. vehicle. The data included a full history of where the car had been driven and its precise location at that moment.