Cars

A vulnerability in Kia’s web portal made it possible to hack cars and track their owners. All you needed was the car’s VIN number or just its license plate number.

Vehicle makers sell the data collected by connected cars about their users’ driving habits to data brokers – who resell it to insurance companies.

What personal information do modern cars collect about you, and how can you avoid surveillance or hacking of your vehicle?

After conducting a thorough study of applications for connected cars, our experts highlighted a number of flaws of such software.

Most third-party apps for connected cars require access to your account with the manufacturer. But are they secure?

To protect ADAS from external interference, cars need a special approach to cybersecurity.

Our experts tried to hack six smart gadgets for cars to find out how manufacturers protect customers.

Systems designed to guard against car theft can be used to track, immobilize, and steal vehicles.

Tinkering with smart car firmware

In this week’s edition Kaspersky Lab’s Transatlantic Cable podcast, Dave and Jeff discuss the company’s security predictions for 2018.

In today’s Kaspersky Lab’s Transatlantic Cable podcast, Dave and Jeff discuss Germany destroying smartwatches, Detroit community Wi-Fi and hacked cars.

The largest motor show in the world is the best place to see what cars will look like in the near future.

Researchers at Chinese security company Keen Lab claim that they have managed to remotely hack an unmodified Tesla Model S with the latest firmware installed. After one driver’s interaction with

The very word automobile means self-moving. Through their history of more than a century, automobiles have evolved, increasingly taking over the driving process from humans. Many years ago, the car

Since last year, there is no doubt that it’s possible to take control over a connected car remotely. Despite this, we can see zero uncontrolled cars on the streets that

Mobile World Congress is always about smartphones. But if you stop looking for them and take a look from a different angle — you’ll find a lot of other stuff.

October 21, 2015 is the date that holds a special place in the hearts of all Back to the Future saga fans. This is the date Marty McFly arrives on

If hacking were high fashion, this season’s hot trend would be car hacking. Shortly after researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek revealed details on Jeep Cherokee’s breach, another team managed

Recently we wrote about the now-famous hack of a Jeep Cherokee. At Black Hat USA 2015, a large security conference, researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek finally explained in detail,

Oops, they’ve done it again: after two successful breaches into the systems of Toyota Prius and Ford Escape, security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek have recently hacked a Jeep

People are fond of completely different vacation styles: while some prefer to strategically limit the movements to the walkway from a beach to a hotel bar, others would be happy