he was considering replacing key cards with old-fashioned door locks and metal keys last used when his great-grandfather founded the hotel. "The securest way not to get hacked," he said ...

Plastic hotel key cards have had a rough few years ... many hotel chains to accelerate plans to transform hotel room door locks. While major U.S. chains have had the digital key capability ...

A friend insists that hotel key cards contain all your information ... key — the kind you wave in front of a door lock to open. Hell is tiny lights in a hotel room Magnetic keys are programmed ...

One team of hackers spent those days focused on the lock on the room's door ... its so-called key derivation function, which allowed them to write to its cards far faster. With either of those ...

A single fake card can unlock any door in the hotel that produced the original. It can also override deadbolts, so a chain lock is likely required to stop an intruder. The only way to check if ...

The researchers said using a key card ... How to protect yourself How can hotel guests protect themselves? ABC News was told the locks in question have a round card reader with a wavy line ...

They started by obtaining any keycard from a target hotel—new or used—in order to read a certain code from that card with a $300 ... a certain piece of the lock’s data and then open it. “Two quick ...

Most hotel key cards are magstripe cards, which you swipe to unlock your door, or RFID cards, which you tap to get into your room, according to Kisi, a physical security system company.