Saturday 16 July 2016

FCA offering cash reward for successful hackers

After numerous embarrassing cases on video showing the Jeep Cherokee being hacked into and controlled remotely, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is offering a cash incentive to any hackers who can find security flaws in any of its latest products.

After that earlier breach led to a 1.4-million-car recall, the company is pulling no punches and does not want to leave itself exposed. Liability is also on the up with extra systems sure to come out of the partnership with Google/Alphabet’s on self-driving cars.

The firm has teamed up with open crowd-sourcing company Bugcrowd, which covers different applications for security testing to find vulnerabilities, with a network of over 28,000. For the full article click here 



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