The hacking technique lays bare the security vulnerabilities of certain models of Saflok-brand RFID-based keycard locks used in 131 countries worldwide Erin Clack is a Staff Editor for PEOPLE. She has ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have developed a simple exploit capable of unlocking all of the doors at more than 10,000 hotels worldwide. Saflok-brand RFID-based keycard locks have been around for 36 years. But only in ...

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.

In a scenario that feels lifted from Oceans 11, a group of hackers have shown the vulnerabilities of RFID-based locks through a hotel room keycard. A team of security researchers recently revealed a ...

There is a new warning for travelers after researchers, posed as hackers, expose a security flaw that could open millions of hotel-room doors. The good news is, they're helping to fix the problem ...