12-08-2016 16:47 via thedrum.com

VW’s keyless entry systems can be hacked

Volkswagen certainly doesn’t need any more bad news, but the German automaker got some more recently when a study by a team at the University of Birmingham recently uncovered that the keyless entry systems in nearly every vehicle manufactured by the company is vulnerable to hacking.
The security hole puts up to 100 million cars at risk, according to the study. And the hack for thieves is as easy as getting a cheap radio transceiver and combining it with one of the few cryptographic key cod
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