Score $10,000 by Hacking a Tesla Model S at Beijing Competition

Are you smarter than a Tesla Model S?

A conference in Beijing is offering a $10,000 prize to security experts who think they can hack Tesla's popular electric model, Forbes reported. The competition is open to anyone who registers for the July 16-17 SyScan conference.

The Palo Alto, Calif.-based automaker isn't officially involved and isn't endorsing the competition, a spokesperson told Forbes. Tesla is already known for having strong security with a full vulnerability disclosure program that lets consumers report any problems in its models.

At the event, which likely marks the first competition to hack a vehicle, security experts could do anything from controlling the Model S with a computer to taking the car's in-dash browser to malicious websites.

Tesla is currently dealing with trademark woes in China, where a businessman claims that he registered Tesla's English-language trademark before the carmaker came to the country.

"There can be no legitimate dispute that Tesla created and used these trademarks long before Mr. Zhan attempted to steal them from us in China," said a Tesla spokeswoman, as quoted by the Wall Street Journal's MoneyBeat. "Mr. Zhan's lawsuit is a last-ditch effort in his unsuccessful scheme."

Zhan Baosheng, the Chinese businessman suing Tesla, is responding to two earlier lawsuits from the automaker "to obtain recompense for [Mr. Zhan's] theft of our property," the Tesla spokeswoman said.

The dispute between the two parties is ongoing and comes as Tesla sales begin to pick up in China. The automaker began delivering cars to China in April.