Researchers at UCSD found the KARR car alarm has vulnerabilities that let a hacker in Bluetooth range unlock a car, immobilize it, or trigger horns and lights.
They can even hack a parking lot full of vehicles—or stealthily steal one—as we demoed in the video below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwA3CuJxbk4
Andy Greenberg
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