View post: Walmart Is Selling a 'Powerful' Cordless Weed Wacker for Just $40 A white hat hacker — this is essentially a good guy, ethical hacker — named Sam Curry recently uncovered some security ...

Track, in real time, the location of a certain car. Once you see that it's parked, just head over and unlock it using nothing but your phone. In fact, why wait? Just go to any parking lot, look up the ...

Modern cars don’t require a key to get them started, or to unlock the doors. We have smart fobs that sense when we’re near enough to the car to unlock the doors, and to let the push-button start ...

When security researchers in the past found ways to hijack vehicles’ Internet-connected systems, their proof-of-concept demonstrations tended to show, thankfully, that hacking cars is hard. Exploits ...

Vulnerabilities in mobile apps exposed Hyundai and Genesis car models after 2012 to remote attacks that allowed unlocking and even starting the vehicles. Security researchers found the issues and ...

Eaton Zveare, a security researcher for a software company, stated that he gained access to this confidential information by creating an administrative account on the unnamed automaker's web portal, ...

A German teenager says he found a vulnerability in an app installed in some Teslas, which allowed him the ability to unlock doors, flash headlights and blast music. The hack highlights the relative ...

In news that will probably leave you tutting and muttering "I knew this would happen," two hackers have found a way to unlock cars that use remote control and telemetry systems like BMW Assist, GM ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. These days, cars are computer centers on wheels. Today’s vehicles can ...