Most modern cars come with an engine immobilizer. Here is what that means and how much they cost if your car isn't equipped ...

Would you like to be able to find out where your car is when you're not in it? How about fleet owners? Would you like to know where your fleet cars (and your employees) are at all times? Houston-based ...

Immobilizers are supposed to kill a vehicle's engine to prevent it from being stolen. However, a trio of researchers recently released a study that reveals the Megamos immobilizer system used by more ...

Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about automotive technology for CNET's Roadshow. Prior to the automotive beat, he covered spyware, Web building technologies, and computer hardware. He began ...

In context: For all the conveniences they provide, keyless entry systems in cars have been subjected to relay attacks for several years, requiring carmakers to beef up security measures against such ...

There are ignition and steering-wheel locks to protect your car from being stolen. But modern cars come with factory-fitted immobilizers which help protect your car from gaining unauthorized access.

The project uses an ID-12 RFID chip and a PIC12F629 microcontroller to create a car immobilizer which can cut the ignition with relay and turn ON only by reading the correct RFID tag. The design puts ...

Kindly suggest a couple of cars within my budget of Rs 7-8 lakh, apart from Volkswagen and Skoda, with a good engine immobilizer that is difficult to break. AAA All cars in the price range that you ...

Kyen Gandini was asleep when thieves broken into his Bungalow home, stole his keys and tried to steal his car at 4am on Tuesday. After his dog woke him, Mr Gandini said he saw the intruders trying to ...

The humble car alarm has been around almost as long as the car itself, first being developed by an unknown prisoner in Denver, circa 1913. To the security-conscious motorist, they make a lot of sense.