Gone are when you couldn't start your car's engine without a physical key. Modern vehicles today come with key fobs that are more useful than just starting your car and locking and unlocking its doors ...

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 ...

Zak is new to the CarBuzz team, working as a freelance content writer. When Zak isn't writing How To articles for CarBuzz he's working as a high school automotive technology instructor. Before ...

Volkswagen owners may have another headache on their hands: a security vulnerability that allows hackers to wirelessly unlock millions of cars. Unlike research into the security problems of recent ...

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.