Electronic lock manufacturer Onity has finally agreed to reimburse its customers—major hotel chains like Marriott, Hyatt, and InterContinental (IHG)—for some of the costs of replacing its ...

Researchers have discovered that hacking into a hotel room can be done with pretty much any electronic key lying around. Master keys for hotel rooms can be created “out of thin air,” F-Secure ...

Hackers could create a master key that can be used to access electronic locks used by tens of thousands of hotels, putting the security of hotel rooms at risk.Detailed today by Tomi Tuominen an ...

Then other hackers refined the hotel keycard lock picking, with one of the coolest device modifications being pen-sized to appeal to the secret spy in all of us.

Millions of Kwikset smartkey locks used to secure residences can easily be thwarted with a screwdriver or wire, despite the company's claims that special features of the lock prevent anything ...

The electronic lock system, known as Vision by VingCard and built by Swedish lock manufacturer Assa Abloy, is used in more than 42,000 properties in 166 countries, amounting to millions of hotel ...

The locks were first made in 2002 by Assa Abloy, but the same core technology is now used all over the world in electronic high-security locks made by other Assa Abloy subsidiaries, such as Medeco ...

This new hacker invention may look like a harmless dry erase marker, but in truth it's the ultimate electronic lock pick. In a post titled 'James Bond's Dry Erase Marker,' hotel hacker Matthew ...

Hotel room lock hack may have been used in Texas burglaries An Onity lock with a hacking device, disguised as a pen, plugged in. Matthew Jakubowski / YouTube Nov. 27, 2012, 4:31 PM EST ...

Some consumer safes protected with electronic locks are quite easy to hack using basic techniques. Others, though, like those made to store guns, are designed to resist expert manipulation ...

Ethical hackers show how to open millions of hotel keycard locks Any NFC-enabled Android phone could forge a master key for every room in a hotel By Daniel Sims March 21, 2024, 16:42 16 comments ...

Researchers reveal electronic car lock hack after 2-year injunction by Volkswagen Dutch, British researchers disclosed bug early, but company's lawyers blocked publication.