In the Pwn2Own Automotive first edition, competitors earned $1,323,750 by hacking Tesla twice and demonstrating 49 zero-day bugs in various electric car systems from January 24 to January 26. Hackers targeted electric vehicle chargers, infotainment systems, and car operating systems during a contest organized by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative …

Cisco warns that some Unified Communications Manager and Contact Center Solutions products have a critical remote code execution security vulnerability. Cisco’s Unified Communications and Contact Center Solutions offer voice, video, and messaging services, as well as customer engagement and management. The company issued a security bulletin about a vulnerability (CVE-2024-20253) …

Top ethical hackers are currently competing in Tokyo. They have discovered nearly 40 zero-day vulnerabilities in Tesla and other products. The first car-focused Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) Pwn2Own contest takes place from January 24-26. ZDI is the world’s largest bug bounty program, encouraging ethical hackers to find and report vulnerabilities …