KU Leuven's original key fob attack on the Model S worked by using a couple of Proxmark and Yard Stick One radios and a Raspberry Pi minicomputer to grab the radio signal from a parked Tesla, and ...

Like most automotive keyless entry systems, Tesla Model S key fobs send an encrypted code, based on a secret cryptographic key, to a car's radios to trigger it to unlock and disable its ...

Tesla told Wired that there's no evidence that anyone has successfully used this hack to steal a Model S (the hack doesn't affect other models since they use different key fobs). The company has ...

To combat this, Tesla has doubled down on security and admirably, has done a great job of keeping hackers out, except for this one little, kind of low-tech thing: the key fob.

Last year, researchers discovered a vulnerability in the Tesla Model S key fob that would've allowed thieves to clone it in just a couple of seconds. The automaker and the key fob's manufacturer ...

So, just as a refresher, with the old key fobs, the problem lay with the way they were encrypted. The company that manufactured them, Pektron, only used a 40-bit encryption protocol, which was ...

Using a tablet and a phone in tandem, they eventually intercept the frequency used by the Tesla owner’s key fob, even though it was “at the back of the house,” according to the owner.