Telematics refers to wireless communication systems designed for collection and dissemination of data in vehicular networks. It has attracted extensive attentions in recent years for their promises in improving traffic safety and enabling other value-added services. Security and privacy are two important issues in the deployment of telematics. This article presents the studies on possible security threats and attacks for applications in vehicular networks. We discuss several requirements that will be helpful in building secure telematics. The vehicular PKI is a good choice for enabling vehicular network security. We then introduce the ID-based cryptosystem which can be one kind of vehicular PKI, and also address the future development of ID-based security framework for telematics.