Who wears a white hat?

Keen Security Lab's team of white-hat hackers found 14 vulnerabilities in BMW's vehicles. "To be honest, they found ways we hadn't thought about," says the German automaker's Michael Gruffke. "Some of them were totally new to us."

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Sometimes the tricky world of white-hat hacking gets mixed up in the minefield that is global politics, and it can get messy.

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