Dozens of guests at luxury hotels in the US have fallen victim to burglaries in recent months, with the thieves suspected of gaining access to their rooms by exploiting a recently exposed security ...

I'd wager just about everyone has stayed in a hotel that uses the key card locks where you slide a little card into the door to release the locking mechanism. One hotel called the Hyatt in the Houston ...

The next time you stay in a hotel room, run your fingers under the keycard lock outside your door. If you find a DC power port there, take note: With a few hacker tricks and a handful of cheap ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the weekend, a story spread widely across social media claiming that hackers had held a hotel to ransom, after locking guests in their rooms: One of Europe’s top hotels has admitted they had to ...

In a nutshell: Over three million hotel room locks in 13,000 buildings in 131 countries are vulnerable to an exploit that lets attackers forge master keys for any door. Although the manufacturer of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Times-Union readers want to know: Is it true that hotel key cards have all your personal information on them, including your credit card number? Should you take a magnet with you to erase the info ...