If, during your next hotel stay, you're met with a lock on your door like that pictured above, it's time for a conversation with management. This is an Onity HT series lock. Cody Brocious claims that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...