LAST MONTH Cody Brocious, a software developer for Mozilla, the company that makes the Firefox web browser, appeared at a hacking conference in Las Vegas to demonstrate a security flaw in hotel-room ...

A hack for opening hotel room keycard locks, developed and demonstrated in July by 24-year-old security researcher Cody Brocious, has already been perfected. Lock manufacturer Onity originally ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s a hack floating around the Web right now by Cody Brocious on how to break into an Onity hotel room lock. Brocious found some very evident flaws in the locks security and did so with about $50 ...

Following a sudden surge of hotel room break-ins after the discovery of a simple door lock hack, lock firm Onity is chipping in to replace affected hotel door locks. Onity is currently working with ...

At this year’s annual DEF CON hacking conference in Las Vegas, a duo of researchers made the startling discovery that roughly 75 percent of Bluetooth-powered Low Energy smart locks are susceptible to ...

Laura Genung works the sliver of metal inside a padlock, probing the pins inside. “I’m so close I can feel it,” the 17-year-old Girl Scout says, exasperated. This catches the attention of her ...

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 ...