If you’re staying at hotel, it might be a good idea to check the manufacturer of your door lock. A black hat hacker has unveiled a method that allows a fairly simple hardware gadget to unlock door ...

Security research firm F-Secure has discovered a critical vulnerability in electronic locks made by the world’s largest lock manufacturer, Assa Abloy. The vulnerability allowed F-Secure researchers to ...

More than nine months after the hotel lock firm Onity announced a fix for a security flaw that allowed anyone to gain access to millions of hotel rooms in seconds, that lock-hacking technique seems to ...

Criminals in the Phoenix area are stealing hotel guests' belongings by exploiting a known software flaw in electronic room locks, demonstrating how an unpatched security flaw can have real-life ...

Researchers have developed a simple exploit capable of unlocking all of the doors at more than 10,000 hotels worldwide. Saflok-brand RFID-based keycard locks have been around for 36 years. But only in ...

WHEN a hacker gets hacked, hackers hack back. That is exactly what an attendee at a hacking conference in Berlin in 2003 did when the keycard-operated lock of his hotel room got hacked. On returning ...

I'd wager just about everyone has stayed in a hotel that uses the key card locks where you slide a little card into the door to release the locking mechanism. One hotel called the Hyatt in the Houston ...

Whoever robbed Janet Wolf’s hotel room did his work discreetly. When Wolf returned to the Hyatt in Houston’s Galleria district last September and found her Toshiba laptop stolen, there was no sign of ...

A string of break-ins at a Houston hotel are being blamed on hackers who exploited a flaw in room locks, a vulnerability that was exposed this year at the Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas.

Criminals in the Phoenix area are stealing hotel guests' belongings by exploiting a known software flaw in electronic room locks, demonstrating how an unpatched security flaw can have real-life ...