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FCA Offers Bounties to Friendly Software Hackers
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV says it will pay hackers between $150 and $1,500 for each security gap they find in the carmaker’s in-car software.
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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV says it will pay hackers between $150 and $1,500 for each security gap they find in the carmaker’s in-car software.
The company is offering the bounties through bugcrowd.com, a website devoted to crowd-based security testing. Tesla Motors Inc., which offers rewards of as much as $10,000 per bug, is the only other auto industry company with an active program on the site.
FCA’s program comes a year after two security experts famously took remote control of a 2014 Jeep Cherokee 10 miles away. They were able to wirelessly interfere with the SUV’s air conditioning, radio, door locks, throttle, steering and brakes.
The “white hat” hackers also demonstrated how they could identify and remotely track a variety of vehicles equipped with FCA’s Uconnect wireless internet system. The company hastily developed a security patch to block future access to some 1.4 million affected vehicles, marking the industry’s first cybersecurity-related recall.
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