German researchers demonstrated how many cars are vulnerable to an inexpensive and effective technique. ADAC, the German Automobile Club, is sort of the AAA of Germany. Recently, the group revealed ...

In an era in which convenience is king and car buyers seek more seamless connections linking home, car and the outside world, keyless ignition has become a nearly ubiquitous automotive feature. Also ...

I've never really been crazy about proximity keys, mostly because I'm a scatter-brained fool. The overall car industry loves them, though, and most new cars use these types of keyless entry systems. A ...

While having a classic muscle car is a pretty cool thing, adding modern conveniences makes it even better. Let's face it: Using a key to unlock the door is not that bad when it's just you getting in ...

Car thefts in the U.K. have increased 50 percent over the past five years, with more than 100,000 cars stolen in England and Wales just last year. WhatCar did a deep dive on the problem and found that ...

[Yingtao Zeng], [Qing Yang], and [Jun Li], a.k.a. the [UnicornTeam], developed the cheapest way so far to hack a passive keyless entry system, as found on some cars: around $22 in parts, give or take ...

It's no secret that keyless entry systems don't fully protect you against car theft. That hasn't prevented automakers from building such cars—or consumers from buying them—but this video showing how ...

Much ado has been made about the possibility of someone hacking today’s internet-connected vehicles. Thankfully, that hasn’t really come to bear quite yet—except in the shadowy realm of stolen cars, ...

Apple wants iPhone owners to be able to use their mobile devices as alternatives to a keyless entry system for their car, with a proposal that would let users unlock and start a vehicle simply by ...