Why is this portable door lock trending? The portable door lock pops up on my social media feed every so often. Ive seen it ...

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 ...

It's not just a lock ... door. Even the inside would be bad because this was the master code that the hotel used for a master key not the regularly changing code that a guest gets for their card.

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 ...

Earlier this week SiliconANGLE revealed how thieves were exploiting a vulnerability in Onity hotel door locks, allowing them to enter guests’ rooms and help themselves to their valuables at will.

SAN FRANCISCO — Every once in a while, an email or Facebook posting makes the rounds sounding alarms over the supposed danger of used hotel card keys ... the room's door lock mechanism ...

The hack could be used to access restricted floors as well as locked rooms Millions of electronic door locks fitted to hotel rooms worldwide ... even if the card's access privileges had long ...

Your next hotel room stay may ... “When they merely tap those two cards on a lock, the first rewrites a certain piece of the lock's data, and the second opens it,” explains Wired. “Two quick taps and ...

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 ...

The hack could be used to access restricted floors as well as locked rooms Millions of electronic door locks fitted to hotel rooms worldwide ... even if the card's access privileges had long ...