Your next hotel room stay may not be as secure as you hope it is. A group of security researchers who were invited to a Las Vegas hotel to identify digital security ...

HELSINKI (Reuters) - By getting hold of a widely used hotel key card, an attacker could create a master key to unlock any room in the building without leaving a trace, Finnish security researchers ...

Security researchers have built a master key that exploits a design flaw in a popular and widely used hotel electronic lock system, allowing unfettered access to every room in the building. The ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Every once in a while, an email or Facebook posting makes the rounds sounding alarms over the supposed danger of used hotel card keys. To stay safe, the reasoning goes, travelers must ...

Let the record state that I am not a fan of the plastic hotel room key card. I lose them. I confuse them with credit cards and I fumble trying to figure out which way the card goes into the lock. They ...

Bad news: With less than $50 of off-the-shelf hardware and a little bit of programming, it's possible for a hacker to gain instant, untraceable access to millions of key card-protected hotel rooms.

Many hotel chains are racing to replace the plastic room key with digital options, including Apple Wallet and Google Wallet apps. Plastic hotel key cards have had a rough few years. During the ...

Let the record state that I am not a fan of the plastic hotel room key card. I lose them. I confuse them with credit cards and I fumble trying to figure out which way the card goes into the lock. They ...

Technology that allows hotel guests to use their phones as room keys is expanding, taking aim at those environmentally unfriendly plastic cards. By Karen Schwartz The demonstration using the cellphone ...

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