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, a ...

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 ...

You might want to think twice about leaving your valuables in the hotel room. Millions of hotel rooms around the world are believed to be at risk to hacking break-ins after a 24-year-old Mozilla ...

This summer, at the Black Hat security conference, a security researcher presented details of a troubling security flaw: An electronic lock system, used in more than 4 million hotel rooms around the ...

The next time you stay in a hotel room, run your fingers under the keycard lock outside your door. If you find a DC power port there, take note: With a few hacker tricks and a handful of cheap ...

In a scenario that feels lifted from Oceans 11, a group of hackers have shown the vulnerabilities of RFID-based locks through a hotel room keycard. A team of security researchers recently revealed a ...

We knew hotel locks aren't meant to be taken literally. This will hopefully spur hotel tech companies to think more about security beyond whizbangs like smartphone-enabled key cards and other cool yet ...

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 ...