Immobilizers are supposed to kill a vehicle's engine to prevent it from being stolen. However, a trio of researchers recently released a study that reveals the Megamos immobilizer system used by more ...

Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about automotive technology for CNET's Roadshow. Prior to the automotive beat, he covered spyware, Web building technologies, and computer hardware. He began ...

Car-related crime has risen significantly over the past two years. It’s not just the theft of catalytic converters either, new vehicles—especially ones manufactured by Hyundai and Kia— are being ...

MUNICH, Germany — Scientists from the German Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum (RUB) have cracked the Keeloq-RFID encryption system. The technology is owned by semiconductor company Microchip; Keeloq systems ...

Ituran is changing the rules of the game in the field of vehicle security systems with the launch of Ituran KEY – an innovative system that makes the traditional immobilizer obsolete. Instead of ...

To decrease the chances of automotive theft, a new automobile immobilizer system uses three radio frequency identification (RFID) readers to make it three-times harder for prospective thieves to start ...

A British high court has banned the publication of an academic paper set to detail exploitable vulnerabilities in a car-immobilizer system that dates from the late 1990s, which remains widely used in ...

Very common car access functions are the immobilizer and the remote keyless entry system. For more advanced systems passive entry and passive start functions are implemented that allow unlocking or ...