So-called smart car alarms are supposed to make vehicles more difficult to steal, but newly published research has found that alarms made by two companies actually make stealing a car easier. The ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, in 2024, there were a total of 850,708 vehicles stolen across the country. Not only can a ...

NEW ORLEANS — It seems to happen every day. Car break-ins play out across the city of New Orleans. Criminals smash car windows and take what they can. "This has been going on for over a year now, and ...

WTOP traffic reporter Steve Dresner, a familiar voice on WTOP’s daily broadcast, shares his experience — and lessons learned — after his car was broken into last week. Last weekend, I joined the ...

How Do You Turn Off The Car Alarm? Disarming the car alarm system without a remote control is often done by going into your anti-theft system’s service mode. From there, you can deactivate it in case ...

Calling a product "smart" and "unhackable' does not magically make it so, as two of the largest vendors of car alarms in the world have now found out. Viper -- known as Clifford in the United Kingdom ...

Last month, right here on Forbes, I warned that cars were hacker magnets. That warning is repeated today with the news that white hat hackers at Pen Test Partners were able to exploit critical ...

Don’t have a home alarm system? Well, one popular post claims anyone who owns a modern car actually does. It’s not a new claim and has been circulating web forums for about 10 years. It reads in part: ...