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.

According to Gartner’s prediction, a quarter billion connected cars will be on the road by 2020. That is why it is vital to implement the idea of information security right from the very start, at the stage of designing those connected cars.

Modern cars are basically computers on wheels. The number of electronic components in vehicles has been increasing at a steady pace, and many models built in the past three to five years have a number of cameras, sensors, and radars on board, accompanied by hardware to process and analyze signals from all that equipment.

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 obey only

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.

At the recent Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg two IT experts, Felix Domke and Daniel Lange (former Head of IT strategy at BMW) gave a talk on what exactly had happened with

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 to take over a Tesla

One of the most highly anticipated prospects of the 21st century has been the possibility of enabling robots to drive cars. But how soon could this be possible?

We are almost one and a half decades into the century of biometry and gesture controls, but our cars still have a steering wheel and two to three manual controls. Is this going to change?

The owners of certain expensive cars can analyze their driving skills in the same way F1 pilots do. However, this information is sensitive and, thus, should be protected.