When thousands of security researchers descend on Las Vegas every August for what's come to be known as “hacker summer camp,” the back-to-back Black Hat and Defcon hacker conferences, it's a given ...

In 2003, Finnish security researcher Tomi Tuominen was attending a security conference in Berlin when a friend's laptop, containing sensitive data, was stolen from his hotel room. The theft was a ...

In July this year, we covered a story on how security researcher Cody Brocious managed to unlock the doors of some 4 million hotel rooms using an Arduino microcontroller and some programming magic, ...

Onity's latest headache with hotel locks deepens the company's problems -- the hotel doors it protects can now be unlocked via modified dry erase marker. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) ...

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 ...