A car that unlocks when its owner approaches sounds wonderfully convenient. The trouble starts when the vehicle cannot ...

Today, cars are equipped with electronic security features-including immobilizers, rolling codes, keyless entry, and encrypted smart-keys-to make stealing a new vehicle more difficult. Even so, the ...

For at least a decade, a car theft trick known as a “relay attack” has been the modern equivalent of hot-wiring: a cheap and relatively easy technique to steal hundreds of models of vehicles. A more ...

Independent testing of Faraday pouches, the cheap key signal blockers sold to stop relay theft, found that several popular models let a signal leak through once they had been used and refastened ...