Earlier this week SiliconANGLE revealed how thieves were exploiting a vulnerability in Onity hotel door locks, allowing them to enter guests’ rooms and help themselves to their valuables at will. Now, ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Whoever robbed Janet Wolf’s hotel room did his work discreetly. When Wolf returned to the Hyatt in Houston’s Galleria district last September and found her Toshiba laptop stolen, there was no sign of ...
The DirectKey technology has been deployed at more than 100 Hilton properties in the U.S. after a successful 4-month trial that received high guest satisfaction ratings. Hilton intends to expand the ...
Electronic lock provider Onity and Residential Management Systems have created a new interface for the 80 colleges using their services which slashes in half the check-in time for students first ...