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Cyberscoop – John Sheehy, VP of Strategy for IOActive, talks with Greg Otto on the changes around coordinated vulnerability disclosure.

The Parallax – VANCOUVER—If coding and updating software is like building and maintaining a house, one might say software that leaks passcodes is like a home with a rotting foundation—but you don’t know it. Ilja van Sprundel, the director of penetration testing at security research company IOActive, says he’s detected a significant amount of rot in the foundation of a wide swath of commonly used software code.

ZDNet – A team of hackers has managed to trick the Tesla Autopilot feature into dive-bombing into the wrong lane remotely through root control and a few stickers. Researchers from Tencent Keen Security Lab published a report this week (.PDF) on their findings, which shows how the Tesla Autopilot system engine control unit (ECU) can be abused through root security weaknesses in software version 18.6.1 to gain remote control of a Tesla Model S steering wheel.

The Parallax – VANCOUVER—If coding and updating software is like building and maintaining a house, one might say software that leaks passcodes is like a home with a rotting foundation—but you don’t know it. Ilja van Sprundel, the director of penetration testing at security research company IOActive, says he’s detected a significant amount of rot in the foundation of a wide swath of commonly used software code.

Bleeping Computer – Office Depot and Support.com, Inc, a tech support software provided from California, agreed to pay $25 million and $10 million respectively for allegedly tricking their customers into paying for millions of US dollars worth of computer repair services using fake malware scans.