After four months, countless hacking embarrassments and a string of hotel burglaries, the maker of one of the world's most common hotel keycard locks is finally owning up to the cost of an epic--and ...

Following a presentation by a hacker at last month’s Black Hat cyber security conference in Las Vegas of a potential vulnerability in Onity hotel locks, the company recently announced that it will be ...

Let's start with two non-controversial propositions: (1) no lock offers perfect security, and (2) any lock that can be defeated by a "stupidly simple" method is functionally worthless. But can a buyer ...

A few months back at the Black Hat Security conference Cody Brocious demonstrated how you can easiy open an Onity hotel room lock, the standard system used in many hotel chains, with an Arduino but it ...

Electronic lock manufacturer Onity has finally agreed to reimburse its customers—major hotel chains like Marriott, Hyatt, and InterContinental (IHG)—for some of the costs of replacing its hackable ...

24-year-old Firefox OS programmer Cody Brocious is presenting an exploit that unlocks Onity hotel doorlocks at this year’s Blackhat security conference in Las Vegas. 24-year-old Firefox OS programmer ...

At the Black Hat Las Vegas security conference in July, Cody Brocious showed how “stupidly simple” it was to exploit Onity keycard-protected hotel rooms and that the lockpicking for untraceable access ...

Can anyone argue against this being the least-secure hotel room lock on the market? Regular readers will recognize it as an Onity key card lock. A few months back a glaring flaw in the security was ...

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