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 ...

Researchers developed an exploit that allowed them to perform an array of malicious functions against so called “mobile keys”. LAS VEGAS – A vulnerability in a popular IoT lock key – used chiefly by a ...

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 ...

HELSINKI (Reuters) - By getting hold of a widely used hotel key card, an attacker could create a master key to unlock any room in the building without leaving a trace, Finnish security researchers ...

Your next hotel room stay may not be as secure as you hope it is. A group of security researchers who were invited to a Las Vegas hotel to identify digital security ...

Researchers at cybersecurity firm F-Secure have designed a device that can pull data off of hotel key cards and essentially create a master key for an entire hotel. Alarmingly, the key card doesn't ...

Vingcard, an ASSA ABLOY company and provider of advanced technologies for the hospitality industry, has announced the launch of Mobile Access featuring hotel key compatibility with Google Wallet. In ...

We weigh up the advantages and disadvantages of using a smart lock over a traditional key-based security system.

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. To stay safe, the reasoning goes, travelers must ...

September brought a series of mysterious break-ins to the Hyatt House Galleria in Houston, Texas. In the latest, a 66-year-old woman's laptop was stolen from her room, and the lock's records showed ...

Let the record state that I am not a fan of the plastic hotel room key card. I lose them. I confuse them with credit cards and I fumble trying to figure out which way the card goes into the lock. They ...

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