The security researchers who spend their days breaking into clients' systems to find and fix security vulnerabilities often call themselves "penetration testers," or "pentesters." But one group of ...

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 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 lock maker Onity first responded last month to news that a hacker's exploit could open millions of its keycard locks installed on hotel room doors around the world, it downplayed the attack on ...

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 ...