Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You arrive home and toss your car keys on a table near your front door. It's an ordinary habit that is all today's thieves need to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bradley Paddick, Benjamin Cross and George Berry were jailed for a combined total of 13 years for their role in a car theft gang. ...

Keyless-entry systems once seemed like the ultimate upgrade, turning a simple fob into a magic wand that unlocks doors with a tap or even a wave. Drivers embraced the convenience, and automakers ...

Car thieves are using tablets and antennas to steal keyless or "push to start" vehicles, police warn, but there are steps owners can take to protect their vehicles. Recently, a group of masked ...

Summer in California brings road trips, beach days, and packed parking lots—but it also brings a spike in high-tech car theft ...

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 ...

They appear like ghosts in the night, standing outside your house, one holding up an antenna while the other crouches next to the car parked on the driveway. Within seconds, your car is gone, yet ...

Modern car thieves don’t need to break windows or hot-wire ignitions anymore. They’re using relay attacks to steal keyless entry vehicles in under 30 seconds, often while you’re sleeping upstairs.

The automaker faced a similar lawsuit last year, so this is not its first rodeo over the same concern. Now, General Motors is facing similar heat. A newly filed class action lawsuit claims GM ...

Keyless vehicle access control system is a fully automated system which have electrically operated locking feature for securing the access to a vehicle. Growing penetration of smartphones and other ...

The ringleaders of a gang of thieves are behind bars after using keyless entry technology to steal dozens of cars while their owners were asleep. The "highly sophisticated" criminal group utilised a ...