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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...