Is your keyless remote safe? Connected cars face increasing threats as new technologies present hackers and thieves with additional ways to access vehicles. One vulnerability, though, involves older ...

For these other key fobs, there wasn't a master key that they could obtain. Instead they exploited the fobs' old and weak HiTag2 encryption algorithm. By capturing between four and eight encrypted ...

Earlier this week, it was revealed that researchers at the University of Birmingham had cracked the (rather poor) encryption scheme used by millions of Volkswagens for their remote unlock key fobs.

A team of researchers from the University of Birmingham has revealed another vulnerability of Volkswagen cars, along with many other brands. After their first reveal, which was about a loophole that ...

Thanks to a flaw in the company’s software, 100 million Volkswagen vehicles could be unlocked by hacking the signals from their keyless entry fobs, according to new research scheduled to be released ...

Researchers from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom and consulting firm Kasper & Oswald say key fobs for nearly 100 million cars worldwide contain outdated security precautions that ...

View post: The BMW 4 Series Has a Future, and It Includes an M4 Something we don’t talk about enough ‘round these parts are key fobs. I’ve either laid eyes on or used pretty much every one of them at ...